From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Reuben Thomas Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: desktop.el: autosave? Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 22:16:33 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1197325021 27382 80.91.229.12 (10 Dec 2007 22:17:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 22:17:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juri Linkov , tomas@tuxteam.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org, Stefan Monnier , rms@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 10 23:17:08 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 1J1qvy-00034I-DM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 23:17:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J1qvg-0000Cd-KR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:16:48 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J1qvc-00008C-33 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:16:44 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J1qvZ-0008Uk-Qj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:16:43 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J1qvZ-0008UB-KO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:16:41 -0500 Original-Received: from pelican.sc3d.org ([216.184.201.86]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (SSL 3.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1J1qvW-0005yG-6G; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:16:38 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; s=key1024; d=sc3d.org; c=nofws; q=dns; b=3AdwpxrmeV5s2YuVJIAdoWYwq5Wxu8v9KlqPUhMY4GGFn8l5tC36PMKtewzJj5tFX/vrPqlw8p2nfQq3xlL8LsF/ZCu00TkwXVi/o2/+B3Qw6yn2qVNB5p0L9wQC9jTp3l70Yc7pgJG+XL/xy57V/MXowFV+faWsGqYGSQRAqXs= Original-Received: from drom (cpc1-popl1-0-0-cust343.popl.cable.ntl.com [81.106.81.88]) by pelican.sc3d.org (pf ESMTP spamd IP-based SPAM blocker) with ASMTP (SSL) id PIA37436; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:16:36 -0500 X-X-Sender: rrt@localhost.localdomain In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Alpine 0.99999 (DEB 796 2007-11-08) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP1+ 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:84988 Archived-At: On Mon, 10 Dec 2007, Drew Adams wrote: >> 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. -- http://rrt.sc3d.org/ | The old cliches are the best