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 (DIR) Post #AdNUTo2xsD8VAIb0dM by thomasmey@social.tchncs.de
       2023-12-31T14:20:57Z
       
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       What upsets me the most about #emacs is the usage of the least known English word for a given functionality, e.g. instead of "refresh buffer" it's "revert buffer" instead of copy and paste it's cut and yank...It's like they having a secret guideline to not use words everybody knows and make sense, but to use some word that also means something similar in English but non native speakers are not aware of.
       
 (DIR) Post #AdNUTzHC7e3RzcL1qC by yisraeldov@linuxrocks.online
       2023-12-31T17:28:58Z
       
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       @thomasmey Emacs terminology predates most of the terms like "copy/paste". And "revert" buffer is correct. You are not refreshing it, rather reverting to the state of the backing file.
       
 (DIR) Post #AdNUV3Dax4OKVZA5OS by amszmidt@mastodon.social
       2023-12-31T14:39:58Z
       
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       @thomasmey Disagree (revert isn't that of an obscure word anyway) -- refresh buffer makes no sense, the buffer is what is always current and what you see.  When you "revert" the buffer you revert (which is a destructive operation!) it to whatever is on disk.WRT, kill/yank -- the jury is out on that, and people who prefer one will complain about another aspect, e.g. that C-k makes no sense any more (Paste? why the k key)
       
 (DIR) Post #AdNUV59lkGWGWHO3hw by amszmidt@mastodon.social
       2023-12-31T14:44:50Z
       
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       @thomasmey "Reload" might have been a good substitute if one would want to find something. It has the same destructive conoctation as "revert".  But "refresh" .. the word doesn't convey the meaning of what revert-buffer does at all.