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bug#50431: revert-buffer doesn't preserve read-onlyness
From: |
Drew Adams |
Subject: |
bug#50431: revert-buffer doesn't preserve read-onlyness |
Date: |
Fri, 26 Aug 2022 16:24:02 +0000 |
> "Reverting" has a specific meaning: re-read the file from disk as if
> it were visited anew. If the user wants to make additional
> adjustments, they will need to readjust. I don't see why the
> read-only status should be exempt from this logic.
+1.
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Consider Dired, which, by visiting a directory
is somewhat like visiting a file. Dired's `g'
reverts the buffer, but that doesn't revert
all of the Dired state (markings, sort order,
hidden files, etc.). `C-x C-v', on the other
hand, does "restore" to both revisit the file
system and restore Dired default (user) settings.
Both `g' and `C-x C-v' are useful in Dired.
Which is just another way of saying that there
can be multiple ways/kinds of "reverting".
- bug#50431: revert-buffer doesn't preserve read-onlyness, (continued)
- bug#50431: revert-buffer doesn't preserve read-onlyness, Juri Linkov, 2022/08/24
- bug#50431: revert-buffer doesn't preserve read-onlyness, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/08/25
- bug#50431: revert-buffer doesn't preserve read-onlyness, Juri Linkov, 2022/08/25
- bug#50431: revert-buffer doesn't preserve read-onlyness, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/08/25
- bug#50431: revert-buffer doesn't preserve read-onlyness, Juri Linkov, 2022/08/25
- bug#50431: revert-buffer doesn't preserve read-onlyness, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/08/26
- bug#50431: revert-buffer doesn't preserve read-onlyness, Juri Linkov, 2022/08/26
- bug#50431: revert-buffer doesn't preserve read-onlyness, Drew Adams, 2022/08/26
- bug#50431: revert-buffer doesn't preserve read-onlyness, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/08/26
- bug#50431: revert-buffer doesn't preserve read-onlyness, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/08/26
- bug#50431: revert-buffer doesn't preserve read-onlyness,
Drew Adams <=
- bug#50431: revert-buffer doesn't preserve read-onlyness, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/08/27