Re: an inconvenient difference in Emacs 22

[David Combs]

In article <mailman.1152.1190461055.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
Kevin Rodgers  <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com> wrote:
>Steve Newcomb wrote:
>> I'm curious about this usage of the word "revert".  "Revert" normally
>> connotes some sort of retrograde motion.  As far as I know, it never
>> connotes forward motion at all, much less forward motion undertaken to
>> catch up with someone else's forward motion.  But, until I'm
>> corrected, that's how I'll understand "revert" in the context of Emacs.
>
>I think that revert-buffer was originally developed for the case where
>the user wanted to discard the changes he'd made in a modified but
>unsaved buffer, reverting its contents to the original disk file.
>
>-- 
>Kevin Rodgers
>Denver, Colorado, USA
>
>
Not still a use?  

  (It's *all* that I (know enough to) use it for)

David