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[PATCH] Add variable to control confirmation of help-mode-revert-buffer

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From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>, Kevin Foley <kevin <at> kevinjfoley.me>
Cc: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>, 44202 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#44202: [PATCH] Add variable to control confirmation of help-mode-revert-buffer
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2020 11:42:13 -0700

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:

> But...  I think it would be helpful if help-mode-revert-buffer (and
> other similar functions) did heed that variable -- then there'd be one
> simple way to control all this.

Agreed.  It would seem logical to just be able to say:

(add-to-list 'revert-without-query "\\`\\*Help\\*\\'")

> Or even perhaps have revert-buffer look at that variable and do the
> right thing instead of punting to revert-buffer--default.
>
> That is, it would look at file names for buffers visiting files, and
> buffer names for other buffers.

If we could get `revert-buffer' to handle this, it seems to me that it
would be even better.

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