From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Hansen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: --no-desktop broken? Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 10:38:50 +0100 Message-ID: <43D2012A.8050406@soem.dk> References: <1137804521.206430.18968.nullmailer@Update.UU.SE> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1137837679 1750 80.91.229.2 (21 Jan 2006 10:01:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 10:01:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 21 11:01:17 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F0FYQ-00076J-7y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Jan 2006 11:01:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F0FZj-0000y9-M1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Jan 2006 05:02:29 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F0FFc-00049J-QB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Jan 2006 04:41:41 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F0FFa-00048i-9J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Jan 2006 04:41:38 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F0FFZ-00048U-Bh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Jan 2006 04:41:37 -0500 Original-Received: from [212.99.225.245] (helo=odin.broadcom.dk) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.34) id 1F0FJu-0001SC-6j; Sat, 21 Jan 2006 04:46:06 -0500 Original-Received: from pppoe3-ves.broadcom.dk ([212.99.255.42] helo=[10.17.1.133]) by odin.broadcom.dk with esmtp (Exim 4.24; FreeBSD) id 1F0FCq-000F0X-Kx; Sat, 21 Jan 2006 10:38:48 +0100 User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20051002) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: ams@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <1137804521.206430.18968.nullmailer@Update.UU.SE> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.91.0.0 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:49350 Archived-At: Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: >According to --help, --no-desktop should be a valid option to emacs. >But when one does, `emacs --no-desktop', it errors out and complains >that it is a unknown option. > > The --no-desktop option is handled in desktop.el, so if desktop.el is not loaded, the option is unknown. If you put (desktop-save-mode 1) in your .emacs, you get no error. I agree that it is confusing that --no-desktop is documented in --help but seems to not work. Maybe --help should not list options that are not loaded by default. Is there some standard or policy here?