How to avoid the prompt in `revert-buffer`

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I'm trying to get rid of the annoying prompt at the end of revert-buffer. This prompt would make sense in a lesser text editor where reverting the buffer is an irreversible action (pardon the pun). However, most of the time when I want to revert buffer I actually want it to do that, and do it right away.

One solution I've come up with was to call the non-interactive counterpart of the revert-buffer function

(global-set-key (kbd "C-r") (lambda () (revert-buffer nil t t))

but this for some reason ignores the second optional argument and still prompts me.

@Drew it does seem to be awfully close to what I want. – Alex Petrosyan Oct 12 '21 at 15:48 — Alex Petrosyan, Oct 12 '21 at 15:48

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 12 '21 at 14:02

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I believe you can set "revert-without-query" to t.

answered Oct 12 '21 at 14:02

joncgoodwin

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Nope. It needs to be set to a regex for files. Also setting it to the aforementioned regex doesn’t seem to work. – Alex Petrosyan Oct 12 '21 at 15:47

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 12 '21 at 15:45

I use this (and in keeping with the MS Windows key for reverting I bind it to <f5>). It's similar to what you're using, but not quite the same. I've been using it for a l o n g t i m e .

(defun revert-buffer-no-confirm ()
  "Revert buffer without confirmation."
  (interactive) (revert-buffer t t))

How to avoid the prompt in `revert-buffer`

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