Re: A few questions about desktop.el

[Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>]

On 7/27/05, Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:

> How many minor modes could you take care of with just those two?

Difficult to say without looking at each one, particularly because
we're talking not of the "normal" minor modes, but the ones that do a
minor-mode work in a non-conventional way: highlight-change,
overwrite, indent-tabs...

All in all, though, I suppose that most of them. But, as a datapoint,
I recently added "*server*" directly to
`desktop-clear-preserve-buffers-regexp' in desktop.el; now I see the
clean way would be for server.el to add it (but that would require a
redesign of a bit of desktop.el interface).

[time passes...]

You're gonna say "Then add a function to customize these two and we'll
see whether we need to add anything more", aren't you? :) OK, I'll see
what I can do.

Anyway, I'd prefer not to make many changes to desktop.el (even quite
non-intrusive changes like these) until Lars returns from holidays, as
he said he would take a look at some questions I posed. I'll post a
patch as soon as I've got it ready, and wait for him.

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