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From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>, 17351@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#17351: Trunk emacs splats .emacs.desktop at startup
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 15:31:47 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ytsimr31ss.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fvitj3hx.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (Juri Linkov's message of "Wed, 25 Jun 2014 02:23:54 +0300")

Juri Linkov wrote:

> But this might cause some problems, e.g. modes that call
> `save-some-buffers' like `compilation-mode' will ask whether to save
> the updated desktop file.

I iamgine a solution could be found.

I could equally well say that using save-buffer will cause the desktop
to be included in the recentf list, which some people may dislike.
(Cf http://debbugs.gnu.org/17155)

> Also it's not clear how to restore the auto-saved backup copy after a
> crash.

Using the normal "file foo has auto-save, recover it" prompt?


(This topic makes me wonder if desktop could have used the standard
interlock mechanism, rather than inventing its own version of that too.)





  reply	other threads:[~2014-06-26 19:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-26 18:04 bug#17351: Trunk emacs splats .emacs.desktop at startup Alan Mackenzie
2014-04-27  8:22 ` Juri Linkov
2014-04-27  9:15   ` Alan Mackenzie
2014-04-27  9:52     ` Juri Linkov
2014-04-27 14:31       ` Stefan Monnier
2014-04-27 22:13         ` Stefan Monnier
2014-06-22  7:05           ` Glenn Morris
2014-06-22 23:01             ` Juri Linkov
2014-06-23  0:05               ` Glenn Morris
2014-06-23 22:57                 ` Juri Linkov
2014-06-24 18:30                   ` Glenn Morris
2014-06-24 23:23                     ` Juri Linkov
2014-06-26 19:31                       ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2014-06-26 23:44                         ` Juri Linkov
2014-08-11  1:18                           ` Glenn Morris
2014-08-12  6:52                             ` Juri Linkov
2014-07-02 23:52                       ` Juri Linkov
2014-07-03  2:42                         ` Glenn Morris
2014-07-03 23:35                           ` Juri Linkov

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