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Re: Reverting but keeping undo
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Barry Margolin |
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Re: Reverting but keeping undo |
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Fri, 31 May 2013 14:08:38 -0400 |
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In article <icppw7m5dr.fsf@home.home>, Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net>
wrote:
> Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:
> > 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).
That seems likely. Hence, with revert now undoable, there's not as much
reason for the prompt.
Removing the prompt could potentially mess up saved keyboard macros. But
it seems to me that revert-buffer is an extremely unlikely command to
appear in a macro.
--
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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- Re: Reverting but keeping undo, (continued)
- Re: Reverting but keeping undo, Óscar Fuentes, 2013/05/30
- Re: Reverting but keeping undo, Stefan Monnier, 2013/05/30
- Re: Reverting but keeping undo, Michael Heerdegen, 2013/05/30
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- Re: Reverting but keeping undo, Dan Espen, 2013/05/30
- Re: Reverting but keeping undo, Stefan Monnier, 2013/05/30
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- Re: Reverting but keeping undo, Dan Espen, 2013/05/30
- RE: Reverting but keeping undo, Drew Adams, 2013/05/30
- Re: Reverting but keeping undo, Michael Heerdegen, 2013/05/31
- Re: Reverting but keeping undo, Óscar Fuentes, 2013/05/31
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- Re: Reverting but keeping undo, Dan Espen, 2013/05/31
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- Re: Reverting but keeping undo, Barry Margolin, 2013/05/30
Re: Reverting but keeping undo, Barry OReilly, 2013/05/31