> Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 21:51:59 -0600 (CST)
> From: Luc Teirlinck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> The recent addition of auto-revert-check-vc-info to man/files.texi is
> somewhat confusing. It seems to suggest that the normal state of any
> buffer is to have version control info in the mode line. Just
> mentioning VC without reference at that stage is confusing to a reader
> reading the manual back to front, because the concept of VC has not
> yet been introduced at that stage.
Indeed.
> What about the following small change? I can install if desired.
>
> ===File ~/man-files.texi-diff===============================
> *** files.texi 26 Mar 2005 09:57:37 -0600 1.101
> --- files.texi 26 Mar 2005 20:54:06 -0600
How about moving the entire documentation of auto-revert-check-vc-info
to one of the sections that document VC? The section about reverting
could then say something like
xref{..., auto-revert-check-vc-info}, for Auto Revert peculiarities
in buffers that visit files under version control.
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