Provide a way to manually reload an opened file.

[RokeJulianLockhart]

#17643 (comment)

• VSCode Version:1.8.1
• *OS Version:Windows 7 64 bit

I am trying to analyze the log files. It would be very helpful if i have a feature like a button click or a command to reload a file from disk. I can see the file being reloaded automatically but i am expecting a command to reload the file manually/only when needed.

Any suggestion or help on this feature please?

Thanks,
@Jai1122.

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#17643 (comment)

File > Revert File allows to do so. It will fetch the contents of the file from disk even if not dirty.

Reverting is not reloading. I don't want to revert certain files, even temporarily. I want to reload them.

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[IllusionMH]

Reverting is not reloading. I don't want to revert certain files, even temporarily. I want to reload them.

What's expected difference with File > Revert File? From description it looks like you want to see (updated) disk content in editor and that's what command would.

[RokeJulianLockhart]

But, @IllusionMH, it would revert the file to a previous state, wouldn't it? Why else is it called "Revert File" if it's merely acquiring the state from the disk...?

[IllusionMH]

it would revert the file to a previous state, wouldn't it?

I was confused with name as first as well, "File: Revert editor state" would be better if command should contain word "Revert".

AFAIK it's only reverts of editor's model state, e.g. noticeable when it's outdated (not all content of log file shown) or is dirty (changed something without saving).
In case of logs, it won't remove latest log entries from file - it would perform forced read from (disk) file content and update editor model state to match file content. That's not like git revert.

If you just read log file and didn't edit it - you would just see new lines shown in the editor, if you did some edits (dirty state) your unsaved changes will be dropped, and you'll see only content from disk.

If I didn't miss something - this will be method called from editor service

vscode/src/vs/workbench/services/textfile/common/textFileEditorModel.ts

Line 239 in 6aca75d

async revert(options?: IRevertOptions): Promise<void> {

[RokeJulianLockhart]

If it does merely read from storage, only revert the current editor's in-memory changes, I suppose that this can be closed. However, it's hideously named.