On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 06:48:20AM -0500, James M. Cape wrote: > I know, I know, not Emily Post to reply to one's own message, but I just > had an idea. Why call it revert or reload, or anything similar at all. I > just thought about what an average MS Word user would do if I handed > them a sheet that said > > 1. "Open the document, type <lots of text here>" > 2. Now, make the document the same as when you opened it > > I instantly imagined what most users would do: > Go to "Edit"/"Undo", repeating this until it was the same as when they > opened it. So why not put it in Edit? "Undo until last saved" or > something? > > Just a thought :-) This is a good idea, but I'm going to throw a spanner in the works. The discussion so far has assumed that the user is only editing the document in one editor at a time. However, it sometimes happens that the user has the document open in two editors simultaneously. At that point, Revert becomes less of an undo operation and more a synchronise operation. Perhaps this is too obscure an objection, and it still leaves "Revert" as the wrong label... I don't know. colin _____________________________ ____ rtnl http://rational.cjb.net c z robertson ndirect co uk icq 13294163
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