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 02:23:57 +0200 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87bq8y3wpu.fsf@jurta.org> References: <874peq5cnx.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1197333692 20315 80.91.229.12 (11 Dec 2007 00:41:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 00:41:32 +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 01:41:41 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 1J1tBp-0000wG-JV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 01:41:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J1tBX-0003at-UT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:41:19 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J1tB3-0003NU-TL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:40:49 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J1tB2-0003ND-Gx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:40:49 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J1tB2-0003N8-EV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:40:48 -0500 Original-Received: from relay03.kiev.sovam.com ([62.64.120.201]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1J1tB2-0001Bq-5s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:40:48 -0500 Original-Received: from [83.170.232.243] (helo=smtp.svitonline.com) by relay03.kiev.sovam.com with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1J1tAx-000EIF-Mr; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 02:40:44 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Reuben Thomas's message of "Tue, 11 Dec 2007 00:02:28 +0000 (GMT)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Scanner-Signature: b36477657b07eb27dc67b07df918f397 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 4.7-5.2 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.4) (2) 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:85014 Archived-At: > On Tue, 11 Dec 2007, Juri Linkov wrote: > >> 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? > > What's the point of having two completely different ways of doing exactly > the same thing? This is confusing. ISn't there some way to resolve that? There are many packages in Emacs that have similar functionality. But there are no problems with that. Every package has its own users. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/