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From: Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: desktop fails to restore dired buffers
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2023 21:20:25 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86jzppiuau.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 83fs0e326g.fsf@gnu.org

On Thu 07 Dec 2023, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> From: Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton@gmail.com>
>> Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2023 21:28:44 +0000
>> 
>> 
>> Commit ce4a62eece60 ("Fix desktop-save on remote dired (bug#66697)") on
>> the master branch changed how dired buffers are saved by desktop-save,
>> so they are no longer restored in my setup.
>> 
>> The code in `dired-desktop-save-p' and `dired-desktop-buffer-misc-data'
>> now assumes that `desktop-files-not-to-save' always has a string value.
>> 
>> However I have `desktop-files-not-to-save' as nil, which is a valid
>> value according to its definition. That fails the checks, and so
>> dired buffers are not saved.
>> 
>> Please can this oversight be fixed ?
>
> Manuel, could you please look into this issue?
>
> P.S. This should have been posted to the bug tracker, not here.

I did that, and reopening an archived bug did not work for some reason.
I gave up and posted here to capture the problem.

From some experimentation, it seem that replacing:

    desktop-files-not-to-save

with:

    (or desktop-files-not-to-save "")

seems to restore the original behaviour.


    AndyM




  reply	other threads:[~2023-12-07 21:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-12-06 21:28 desktop fails to restore dired buffers Andy Moreton
2023-12-07  7:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-12-07 21:20   ` Andy Moreton [this message]
2023-12-08 13:59   ` Manuel Giraud via Emacs development discussions.

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