From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: desktop.el: autosave? Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 14:12:32 -0800 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1197324780 26579 80.91.229.12 (10 Dec 2007 22:13:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 22:13:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juri Linkov , tomas@tuxteam.de, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Reuben Thomas" , "Stefan Monnier" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 10 23:13:09 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 1J1qs6-0001Ww-Q4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 23:13:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J1qrp-0002OJ-3N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:12:49 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J1qrl-0002O8-Vr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:12:46 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J1qrk-0002NZ-IR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:12:45 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J1qrk-0002NW-CR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:12:44 -0500 Original-Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1J1qrg-0005AP-WC; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:12:41 -0500 Original-Received: from rgmgw1.us.oracle.com (rgmgw1.us.oracle.com [138.1.186.110]) by rgminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.6) with ESMTP id lBAMCbI9011681; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 15:12:37 -0700 Original-Received: from acsmt351.oracle.com (acsmt351.oracle.com [141.146.40.151]) by rgmgw1.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.2.4) with ESMTP id lBAMCaBe027658; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 15:12:36 -0700 Original-Received: from dhcp-4op11-4op12-west-130-35-178-158.us.oracle.com by acsmt350.oracle.com with ESMTP id 3427754521197324749; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 14:12:29 -0800 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:84986 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.