Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> writes:
But if 'revert-buffer' were to move to 'C-x x u', I wouldn't find it
odd. Because 'revert-buffer' pretty much has two different jobs:
- There are file-visiting buffers, revert-buffer-function is never
set, and revert-buffer reverts to contents saved to disk as well as
re-initializes the modes. Up until now this function never had a
binding.
- There are non-file-visiting buffers, revert-buffer-function must be
set, and the command does whatever revert-buffer-function says. This
is usually bound to 'g', though apparently not always.
If these were two different commands, I don't think much would have
changed for the vast majority of our users.
Yes, that's true -- they're really quite different things... but I'm
not sure I feel much enthusiasm for detangling that bit at this point.