GNU bug report logs - #11977
23.2; F5 and revert without confirmation

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Romain TROIT <romain.troit <at> aviation-civile.gouv.fr>

Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 15:39:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: wontfix

Found in version 23.2

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Christopher Schmidt <christopher <at> ch.ristopher.com>
To: 11977 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#11977: 23.2; F5 and revert without confirmation
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 00:13:00 +0100 (BST)

Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru> writes:
[...]
> 2. (define-key global-map [f5] 'revert-buffer-no-confirm)
>
> is not that much shorter than
>
>   (define-key global-map [f5] (lambda () (interactive) (revert-buffer t t)))

C-h k <f5>, C-h b and friends won't display much helpful information in
this case.

I don't think that any key should be bound to revert-buffer without
confirmation.  It is too easy to hit the key by accident.

        Christopher
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