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: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 01:59:48 +0200 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87tzmn5urv.fsf@jurta.org> References: <874peq5cnx.fsf@jurta.org> <87bq8y3wpu.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 1197504149 1302 80.91.229.12 (13 Dec 2007 00:02:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 00:02:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: tomas@tuxteam.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org, drew.adams@oracle.com, Reuben Thomas To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 13 01:02:39 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 1J2bXB-0005pQ-E6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Dec 2007 01:02:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J2bWt-00077C-Gq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:02:19 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J2bWp-00076x-6q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:02:15 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J2bWm-00076l-Qr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:02:13 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J2bWm-00076i-Kf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:02:12 -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 1J2bWi-0004g7-Kn; Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:02:09 -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 1J2bWb-0007rk-0p; Thu, 13 Dec 2007 02:02:05 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Wed, 12 Dec 2007 17:53:07 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Scanner-Signature: 068dd79c68aafbc760c35e97c5d420ed 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 1882 [Dec 13 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:85119 Archived-At: > So what do you think about this case? Presumably one of desktop and > savehist-mode should be marked as the preferred way of saving history. > > Looking at desktop.el I don't think it saves minibuffer history > variables. I can't find any code that would do so. It seems that > desktop.el and savehist.el are complementary, not duplicates at all. > > Where did the idea come from that desktop.el saves minibuffer history? desktop.el allows saving any global variable listed in the option `desktop-globals-to-save'. I use it to save history lists in addition to the default global variables in this list. > The real duplicates in that area are saveplace.el and desktop.el. desktop.el saves file positions restored once the whole desktop is restored while positions stored by saveplace.el get restored on every file visit. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/