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28.0.50; Set revert-buffer-function in shell command output buffers

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Michael Welsh Duggan <mwd <at> md5i.com>
Cc: Sean Whitton <spwhitton <at> spwhitton.name>, 46151 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Subject: bug#46151: 28.0.50; Set revert-buffer-function in shell command output buffers
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2021 08:37:47 +0100

Michael Welsh Duggan <mwd <at> md5i.com> writes:

>> To avoid all possible conflicts, this looks harmless: 'C-c g'.
>
> Except key sequences consisting of `C-c' followed by a letter are
> reserved for user-defined bindings.

Indeed.

This reminds me that I've often found it odd that there's no global
binding for `revert-buffer' -- I think there should be, because it's
such a useful command.

Sean suggested `C-c C-r', which is nicely mnemonic, and is natural as a
non-complicated alternative to `C-c C-f' when trying to reload a file
(since `C-c C-f' has a lot of annoying DWIM stuff going on).

We can't use `C-c C-g', I guess, since we try to avoid keystrokes that
involve `C-g' (since `C-g' should reliably quit), but that would also be
a natural keystroke, since `revert-buffer' is bound to `g' in
`special-mode'.

Any opinions?

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