GNU bug report logs - #35504
26.2; Key `g' should run `package-menu-refresh' in the *Packages* buffer

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Rudi Schlatte <rudi <at> constantly.at>

Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2019 14:54:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: patch

Found in version 26.2

Fixed in version 27.1

Done: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #30 received at 35504 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Cc: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie>, 35504 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Rudi Schlatte <rudi <at> constantly.at>
Subject: Re: bug#35504: 26.2; Key `g' should run `package-menu-refresh' in
 the *Packages* buffer
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2019 21:47:00 -0400

>> Fine by me.  I wonder, tho: why not set revert-buffer-function and then
>> redefine `package-menu-refresh` as an obsolete alias for `revert-buffer`?
> Sure, I've tried to do that in the attached patch.  WDYT?
[...]
> +  (setq revert-buffer-function 'package-menu-revert)
[...]
> +(define-obsolete-function-alias 'package-menu-refresh 'package-menu-revert "27.1")

Could we make package-menu-refresh to be an (obsolete) alias of
`revert-buffer` instead (and make package-menu-revert an internal
non-interactive function)?


        Stefan
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