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- Subject: Re: digested
- Date: Mon, 27 Jun 1994 10:02:02 +1000
- From: Warwick Allison <warwick@cs.uq.oz.au>
- Precedence: bulk
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- Michael Nolte wrote:
- >>`Reload' clearly means `load it again', but doesn't have a `delete it
- >>first' conotation.
- >You have a point, there. But would it make sense to load the contents of a
- >window from the same file as before without previously throwing away
- >thechanges? I don't think so.
-
- Consider this: I am editing a file. I want to look at the unedited version
- I still have on disk, so I select `reload'... oops... it deleted my other
- version before reloading the file - `how strange', I scream!
-
- Revert is the perfect word in English. By all means, have `neuladen' in
- the German RSC file. `Re-X' always means `Do X again' in english, Reopen
- is totally inappropriate.
-
- The only argument against `Revert' is that put forward suggesting that
- in a multitasking environment, the file may change, thus revert would
- return the the CURRENT version of the file on disk, not necessarily the
- version that the user started editing.
-
- --
- Warwick
-