Re: Reverting but keeping undo

[Dan Espen]

Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:

> Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> writes:
>
>> Undoing a revert sounds very intuitive to me.
>
> To me too.
>
>> And the confirmation dialog on the revert was no fun,
>> I had my own solution for bypassing the warning.
>>
>> I see no reason for any additional warnings.
>
> To be clear: I don't want an additional prompt for confirmation, just a
> short message in the minibuffer, like
>
> [Undo: undoing `revert-buffer']
>
> Because there are cases when the user (I) would want to stop at that
> point.
>
>> I assume this change kills off the old confirmation about reverting.
>> (Posting from news:gnu.emacs.help).
>
> I wonder why this prompt for confirmation was implemented.  I mean, you
> seldom will type M-x revert-buffer RET by accident... If it's of no use
> and everybody hates it, we should indeed consider to remove it, at least
> for the interactive case.

I always assumed it was because you were losing your undo history
making the action one that could not be reversed (undone).

-- 
Dan Espen