painful ui change in find-alternate-file

[Darrin B. Jewell]

A recent ui change to the find-alternate-file
command between emacs 21.4 and the current cvs emacs
has been causing me difficulty

When I wish to discard edits in a buffer without saving
them, I historically have used the find-alternate-file
command to revisit the same file.

Previous versions of emacs would ask me:
  "Buffer foo is modified; kill anyway? (yes or no)"
but the current cvs version of emacs asks me:
  "Buffer foo is modified; save it first? (yes or no)"

I have long ingraned the keystroke "C-x C-v RET yes RET"
to revert buffers, but now this has the exact opposite
effect than I intended, and it saves the buffer for me
instead of discarding changes.

I understand that the revert-buffer command is a more appropriate
interface, but since it was not bound to a default keystroke I have
never gotten in the habit of using it.

Thanks,
Darrin


In GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (i386-apple-darwin8.8.1, X toolkit)
 of 2006-09-29 on Cardenio.local
X server distributor `The XFree86 Project, Inc', version 11.0.40400000
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<return> C-x k <return> <escape> x r e p o <tab> r 
<tab> <return> u i SPC c h a n g e SPC i n SPC f i 
l e <backspace> <backspace> n d - a l t e r n a t - 
f i l e <return> C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-e 
C-n C-n C-n C-p C-p C-a C-n M-f M-f M-b p a i n f u 
l SPC C-e C-x k <return> <escape> x M-p <return> M-p 
C-e M-b M-b M-f e C-e <return> C-x k <return> <escape> 
x M-p <return>

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