From: Eric Swenson <eric@swenson.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 55070@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#55070: 28.1; desktop-load doesn't work in -nw (non-gui) emacs
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2022 07:53:43 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0005CD80-4AE7-4E00-86EB-6ADDF333A9B6@swenson.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83sfq3op15.fsf@gnu.org>
Thanks. It seems really strange that this should be problematic in -nw sessions. I could understand not being able to restore windows between a GUI and -nw sessions, but I don’t see why, since windows work perfectly well in a single frame in a -nw session that restoring them should be problematic.
Can you explain why this is difficult? In -nw sessions the same commands split windows perfectly well. So clearly -nw sessions support window splitting — why not restoring? (I think a restriction that requires the saving and restoring sessions to be the same kind (either both -nw or both GUI) is a perfectly sensible restriction.
-- Eric (KN6SIJ)
> On Apr 23, 2022, at 07:25, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>
>
>>
>> From: Eric Swenson <eric@swenson.org>
>> Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2022 06:52:13 -0700
>> Cc: 55070@debbugs.gnu.org, eric=swenson.org@groups.io
>>
>> I start emacs with a single frame. I create three windows by doing, for example, C-x 2, and C-x 3. In each window, I read in a file. Then I invoke M-x desktop-save, and select a directory. I always use ~/.emacs.d. Then I exit emacs with C-x C-c.
>>
>> Then I renter emacs and invoke C-x desktop-load.
>>
>> If for both sessions, I invoke emacs with “-Q” only, on either macOS or Linux with Gnome desktop, everything works fine. However, if I invoke emacs with “-nw -Q”, when I run M-x desktop-load, I only get a single window with one of the files loaded. The other two files are loaded into buffers, but their windows were not restored.
>>
>> I haven’t tried a case where I ran a GUI session first and saved the desktop and then ran the non-GUI (-nw) session for the restore, but I’m pretty sure it would also fail.
>>
>> I think the “issue” is that desktop-load doesn’t work in the -nw session.
>>
>> And yes, you can set up the windows using C-x 4 f <filename> as well as the explicitly creating a second window and splitting and then loading files into each. It doesn’t really matter.
>
> OK, thanks for the details. They tell me that what you see is the
> intended behavior: desktop.el doesn't restore frames and windows on
> text-mode terminals. This is because restoring frames and windows in
> a -nw session is problematic, especially if the desktop was saved from
> a GUI session.
>
> If this causes a lot of inconvenience, maybe we could have a user
> option to allow restoring the frameset in -nw session, for those who
> only ever use -nw sessions. But we cannot allow that in general, and
> not by default, IMO.
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Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-04-22 23:27 bug#55070: 28.1; desktop-load doesn't work in -nw (non-gui) emacs Eric Swenson
2022-04-23 6:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-23 13:52 ` Eric Swenson
2022-04-23 14:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-23 14:53 ` Eric Swenson [this message]
2022-04-23 15:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-23 15:39 ` Eric Swenson
2022-04-26 7:58 ` Juri Linkov
2022-04-26 10:16 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-26 11:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-26 15:28 ` Juri Linkov
2022-04-26 16:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-26 17:40 ` Juri Linkov
2022-04-26 18:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-27 16:53 ` Juri Linkov
2022-04-27 17:02 ` Eric Swenson
2022-04-28 7:01 ` Juri Linkov
2022-04-28 16:18 ` Eric Swenson
2022-04-28 17:39 ` Juri Linkov
2022-04-30 8:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-01 17:25 ` Juri Linkov
2022-05-03 16:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-03 17:57 ` Juri Linkov
2022-05-03 18:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-05 16:35 ` Juri Linkov
2022-05-05 16:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-05 18:08 ` Juri Linkov
2022-04-27 17:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
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