Re: Uninformative comment in files.el

[martin rudalics]

> > Could whoever installed the following change:
> >
> >    2007-12-10  Yoni Rabkin Katzenell  <address@hidden>  (tiny change)
> >    * file.el (revert-buffer): Eliminate overlays and the mark.
> >
> > replace the comment "Reset the mark and remove all overlays" which just
> > paraphrases the code, with a comment that actually explains why we
> > want/need to do that?
> >   
>
>
> This is not explained in etc/TODO file.
>
> The patch refers to this line in etc/TODO file:
>
>    ** revert-buffer should eliminate overlays and the mark.
>
>
> Does anyone know why this is necessary?

I'm afraid the patch installed is overly simplistic.  You can find out
more by looking at the thread starting with

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2005-11/msg01346.html

For the moment I'd strongly propose to revert the change and study the
problem in more depth.





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