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From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: 16630@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#16630: desktop-auto-save seems confusing
Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 21:47:53 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <gsd2j3siee.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zjm8bmpt.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (Juri Linkov's message of "Mon, 03 Feb 2014 10:54:22 +0200")

Juri Linkov wrote:

>> Why doesn't enabling desktop-save-mode at any time just turn it on?
>> Why does it require the desktop file to exist beforehand?
>
> desktop-auto-save is an noninteractive operation, so first
> you need to select a directory where you want to save the desktop
> using M-x desktop-save or M-x desktop-save-in-desktop-dir
> that asks interactively where to save the desktop.
> This allows desktop-auto-save to know the desktop file name.

emacs -Q
M-x desktop-save-mode RET
M-x desktop-save RET /tmp RET
C-h v desktop-auto-save-timer  
   -> still nil, still no auto-save

As I said, nothing enables desktop-auto-save except after-init-hook.

Whereas if I happen to customize desktop-auto-save-timeout, suddenly it
will start auto-saving. This doesn't make much sense.

(Also, I guess the ignore-errors in the :set of desktop-auto-save-timeout
isn't really needed, rather an :initialize is.)





  reply	other threads:[~2014-02-04  2:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-03  7:47 bug#16630: desktop-auto-save seems confusing Glenn Morris
2014-02-03  8:54 ` Juri Linkov
2014-02-04  2:47   ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2014-02-04  7:50     ` Juri Linkov
2014-02-05  5:52       ` Glenn Morris
2014-02-05  7:48         ` Juri Linkov
2014-02-07  7:45         ` Juri Linkov

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