From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#22025: Emacs 25 corrupts Emacs 24 .emacs.desktop. Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2015 15:44:55 +0000 Message-ID: <20151203154455.GG2136@acm.fritz.box> References: <83a8pukwdq.fsf@gnu.org> <20151201170138.GB2611@acm.fritz.box> <83zixuj9b8.fsf@gnu.org> <20151202112722.GA2318@acm.fritz.box> <83egf5j6x2.fsf@gnu.org> <20151203084031.GB2136@acm.fritz.box> <83mvtrj02w.fsf@gnu.org> <20151203145702.GF2136@acm.fritz.box> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1449157406 22870 80.91.229.3 (3 Dec 2015 15:43:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2015 15:43:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 22025@debbugs.gnu.org, Juanma Barranquero To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 03 16:43:11 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1a4W2I-0003Nx-6E for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Dec 2015 16:43:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36103 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a4W2H-0006cX-N3 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Dec 2015 10:43:09 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47611) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a4W2E-0006cN-Kh for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Dec 2015 10:43:07 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a4W2A-0001fJ-LD for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Dec 2015 10:43:06 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:47984) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a4W2A-0001fD-IG for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Dec 2015 10:43:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1a4W2A-0004aa-EA for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Dec 2015 10:43:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Alan Mackenzie Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2015 15:43:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 22025 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 22025-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B22025.144915737517621 (code B ref 22025); Thu, 03 Dec 2015 15:43:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 22025) by debbugs.gnu.org; 3 Dec 2015 15:42:55 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37692 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1a4W22-0004a7-Q7 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 03 Dec 2015 10:42:55 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.muc.de ([193.149.48.3]:33454) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1a4W21-0004Zm-0f for 22025@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 03 Dec 2015 10:42:53 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 17663 invoked by uid 3782); 3 Dec 2015 15:42:46 -0000 Original-Received: from acm.muc.de (p579E903F.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [87.158.144.63]) by colin.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Thu, 03 Dec 2015 16:42:46 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 18711 invoked by uid 1000); 3 Dec 2015 15:44:55 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.12 (Macallan) X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:109561 Archived-At: Hello, Drew. On Thu, Dec 03, 2015 at 07:35:24AM -0800, Drew Adams wrote: > That all sounds great. Thanks for working on this and for answering > my questions about it so clearly. > > The current plan is as follows: a desktop file will stay in format > > version 206 (which works with any Emacs from 22.1) until the user > > positively decides to upgrade it to 208, which she will do with C-u M-x > > save-desktop. If, for any reason, a desktop needs to be put back to > > 206, this can be done with C-u C-u M-x save-desktop. There are > > programmatic equivalents to these command options. > I don't really understand why the upgrade is not automatic, but > I don't need to. But I think you should. With an automatic upgrade, somebody "just trying out" Emacs 25.1 would be going to get very upset on finding out that their precious .emacs.desktop had suddenly been rendered unusable with their current Emacs version. This might be misinterpreted as a dirty trick to force people to upgrade to Emacs 25.1. > Sounds good. Thx. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).