Re: desktop.el: autosave?

[Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>]

On Mon, 10 Dec 2007, Juri Linkov wrote:

>> After about 30 hours, saving the desktop had accumulated about 50s of time
>> this way. That seems a reasonable amount to me. I have 137 buffers in my
>> session, and my desktop file is about 38,000 bytes long. Hence, I suggest
>> that a simple feature "Auto-save desktop" which adds
>> desktop-save-in-desktop-dir to auto-save-hook, would satisfy most people
>> likely to use this feature. Furthermore those concerned about power usage
>> and disk spin-up only have to worry about the same Emacs feature
>> (auto-save-hook), and not add another hook or function to their list of
>> things to tweak.
>
> For users with small desktop files this simple solution could be
> satisfactory.

How much bigger than mine do you think it's going to get?

> A separate question is whether to auto-save the desktop using
> auto-save-hook by default or not.  Perhaps not if it can cause
> potential problems for users.

I think this is a nice default if desktop is active. Of course, desktop 
itself is not switched on by default. I don't think it will cause problems 
for many users; those who don't like it can switch it off, of course. It 
seems reasonable to have it on by defaut, just like auto-save for files is 
on by default.

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