Message 54423 - Python tracker (original) (raw)

The file menu in Editor windows could benefit from a "reload" function that re-reads the file from disc and loads it into the editor, replacing what's currently in the editor. That's useful for those of us who like to edit with Emacs in another window while running the code under Idle. To get really fancy, it might be cool to optionally display a diff between the in-editor version and the on-disk version allowing merging changes, but that's maybe over the top.

Other editors usually do have commands like this, e.g.M-x Revert-file in Emacs or ":e!" in vi.