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Eli Zaretskii |
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master b575e44: Fix documentation of a recent changeset |
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Tue, 20 Jul 2021 11:38:08 -0400 (EDT) |
branch: master
commit b575e44cbffbbfb8e09e26b94701f5bec65c9dc0
Author: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Commit: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Fix documentation of a recent changeset
* lisp/autorevert.el (auto-revert-mode):
* lisp/files.el (revert-buffer): Doc fix. (Bug#49661)
---
lisp/autorevert.el | 7 +++----
lisp/files.el | 11 ++++++-----
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/lisp/autorevert.el b/lisp/autorevert.el
index f8fd92d..9197ead 100644
--- a/lisp/autorevert.el
+++ b/lisp/autorevert.el
@@ -391,10 +391,9 @@ disk changes.
When a buffer is reverted, a message is generated. This can be
suppressed by setting `auto-revert-verbose' to nil.
-Reverting may also break markers in the buffer. To avoid that
-you may set `revert-buffer-insert-file-contents-function' to the
-slower function `revert-buffer-insert-file-contents-delicately'.
-See its description for details.
+Reverting can sometimes fail to preserve all the markers in the buffer.
+To avoid that, set `revert-buffer-insert-file-contents-function' to
+the slower function `revert-buffer-insert-file-contents-delicately'.
Use `global-auto-revert-mode' to automatically revert all buffers.
Use `auto-revert-tail-mode' if you know that the file will only grow
diff --git a/lisp/files.el b/lisp/files.el
index 01b8bdf..0606ed6 100644
--- a/lisp/files.el
+++ b/lisp/files.el
@@ -6278,10 +6278,6 @@ This undoes all changes since the file was visited or
saved.
With a prefix argument, offer to revert from latest auto-save file, if
that is more recent than the visited file.
-Reverting a buffer will try to preserve markers in the buffer,
-but for better results see `revert-buffer-with-fine-grain'. For
-details see the Info node `(elisp)Reverting'.
-
This command also implements an interface for special buffers
that contain text that doesn't come from a file, but reflects
some other data instead (e.g. Dired buffers, `buffer-list'
@@ -6307,7 +6303,12 @@ This function binds `revert-buffer-in-progress-p'
non-nil while it operates.
This function calls the function that `revert-buffer-function' specifies
to do the work, with arguments IGNORE-AUTO and NOCONFIRM.
The default function runs the hooks `before-revert-hook' and
-`after-revert-hook'."
+`after-revert-hook'
+
+Reverting a buffer will try to preserve markers in the buffer,
+but it cannot always preserve all of them. For better results,
+use `revert-buffer-with-fine-grain', which tries harder to
+preserve markers and overlays, at the price of being slower."
;; I admit it's odd to reverse the sense of the prefix argument, but
;; there is a lot of code out there that assumes that the first
;; argument should be t to avoid consulting the auto-save file, and
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