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: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 00:50:37 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: 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; format=flowed X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1197420798 30153 80.91.229.12 (12 Dec 2007 00:53:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 00:53:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juri Linkov , tomas@tuxteam.de, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Richard Stallman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 12 01:53:27 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 1J2Fqo-0007jW-GC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Dec 2007 01:53:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J2FqW-0007Me-LR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 19:53:08 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J2FoJ-000443-Jd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 19:50:51 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J2FoH-0003z1-MU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 19:50:50 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J2FoG-0003yO-M6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 19:50:48 -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 1J2FoA-0000HN-Ri; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 19:50:43 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; s=key1024; d=sc3d.org; c=nofws; q=dns; b=/rN8LjmV2VIeoaWolWNapKmDN6E5GSTP8Jkx05V3bx6XnzeQ4LhhBVoFeaizDOHypVt8Ccxwl65Z9FM6CFniK6YqB0qRNvCQ37UQGpc4g5eSRgE8IGYB17OA0V5m2QkaP1YAGqEIvOpKw5zQhN1fkr9ALagX3JFeY2NK85toPKI= 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 RMK71940; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 19:50:40 -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:85072 Archived-At: On Tue, 11 Dec 2007, Richard Stallman wrote: > There are many packages in Emacs that have similar functionality. > But there are no problems with that. Every package has its own users. > > Actually I wish we had fewer duplicate packages. They are added complexity. > > When duplications have existed for a long time we don't have to get > rid of the duplicates, but I would like to make one of them clearly > superior, so it can be the only one we recommend. 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. -- http://rrt.sc3d.org/ | poetry, n. platitude made obscure