RE: My emacs was upgraded and I am a novice again

[Drew Adams]

> > My term for this would would most likely be 'auto-reload' or some
> > such, i.e. when the file changes on disk, reload it.
>
> If ``reload'' is something many people think of when they envision
> such a feature, it should be easy enough to add that word to the
> existing indexing of the manual and to the relevant doc strings.
> However, I find this word surprising in this context.  What other
> similar software packages use it?

I have seen "reload" used with a similar meaning, notably in Web browsers.
Browsers also use "refresh" similarly.

I have also seen "read again" and "re-read" used this way for file editing.