From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: desktop-auto-save-timeout
Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2014 09:48:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <539020DA.3090206@gmx.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878upcffys.fsf@mail.jurta.org>
> I realized now that the right way to implement the desktop auto-saving
> is to activate an idle timer only on changes in the window configuration
> by window-configuration-change-hook.
>
> The desktop file is mostly about remembering a list of buffers and
> windows. There is no point in auto-saving each time point moves.
> This is what web browsers do by auto-saving a list of tabs
> only when you open/close a tab.
Agreed. We might lose some window-points and some buffers that have not
been displayed yet in that case but this is no great harm.
martin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-05 7:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-29 18:24 desktop-auto-save-timeout Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-04 22:49 ` desktop-auto-save-timeout Juri Linkov
2014-06-05 7:48 ` martin rudalics [this message]
2014-06-05 23:35 ` desktop-auto-save-timeout Juri Linkov
2014-06-06 6:33 ` desktop-auto-save-timeout Eli Zaretskii
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