From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: desktop.el: autosave? Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 01:57:12 +0200 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <874peq5cnx.fsf@jurta.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1197331164 13742 80.91.229.12 (10 Dec 2007 23:59:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 23:59:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: tomas@tuxteam.de, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Reuben Thomas Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 11 00:59:33 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1J1sX6-000622-Lf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 00:59:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J1sWo-0004dv-UB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 18:59:14 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J1sWl-0004de-BR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 18:59:11 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J1sWk-0004dQ-KU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 18:59:10 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J1sWk-0004dF-Gr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 18:59:10 -0500 Original-Received: from relay02.kiev.sovam.com ([62.64.120.197]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1J1sWk-0000md-2U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 18:59:10 -0500 Original-Received: from [83.170.232.243] (helo=smtp.svitonline.com) by relay02.kiev.sovam.com with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1J1sWh-0004TI-DW; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 01:59:08 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Reuben Thomas's message of "Mon, 10 Dec 2007 22:16:33 +0000 (GMT)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Scanner-Signature: 233cb89e4cdd9c68f6fe52a505261b56 X-DrWeb-checked: yes X-SpamTest-Envelope-From: juri@jurta.org X-SpamTest-Group-ID: 00000000 X-SpamTest-Header: Not Detected X-SpamTest-Info: Profiles 1866 [Dec 10 2007] X-SpamTest-Info: helo_type=3 X-SpamTest-Info: {HEADERS: header Content-Type found without required header Content-Transfer-Encoding} X-SpamTest-Method: none X-SpamTest-Rate: 19 X-SpamTest-Status: Not detected X-SpamTest-Status-Extended: not_detected X-SpamTest-Version: SMTP-Filter Version 3.0.0 [0255], KAS30/Release X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 4.8-5.1 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:85003 Archived-At: >>> I was previously unaware of savehist-mode. What's the point of >>> having both it and the history-saving functionality of desktop? >>> Wouldn't it be better to remove that functionality from desktop >>> and let users use savehist-mode instead? (Or vice versa.) >> >> Certainly not vice versa. A user might want to save histories but not all >> the rest. > > That's configurable, of course: you could use desktop to save only your > histories. I agree, though, that from where we stand now it'd be easier to > make desktop not save minibuffer histories than to make it easy to > configure to save only minibuffer histories. I suspect that there are more > users using savehist to save their histories too. It would be easy to > point desktop users at savehist-mode. There is no sense to remove history saving from desktop.el if there happens to exist a package that duplicates a part of its functionality. Why put an additional hassle on users of desktop.el with more configuration? -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/