From: Lars Hansen <lists@soem.dk>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: A few questions about desktop.el
Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 08:44:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <445AF43D.3020604@soem.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <36957.128.165.123.132.1146760030.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov>
Stuart D. Herring wrote:
>So what happens if you turn desktop-save-mode off, another Emacs loads,
>locks, overwrites, and unlocks the file, and then you turn
>desktop-save-mode back on? (The desktop file's buffer (if it is made to
>have one) will always be unmodified unless the user explicitly finds it
>and changes it; desktop does not use a buffer as some sort of "scratch
>pad" whose state of modification would reflect the state of the abstract
>desktop.) Besides, someone could have a "standard desktop" that they load
>frequently but save rarely, and so never have desktop-save-mode turned on.
> Then they might occasionally improve on or update the standard, and issue
>an explicit (desktop-save) which would take place without the protections
>of file locking.
>
>
I see your point.
>I encourage the testing of my patch to see if its behavior is close enough
>to everyone's idea of safe, correct, vigilant, and intuitive.
>
>
I will do so. Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-05 6:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 72+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-22 2:42 A few questions about desktop.el Juanma Barranquero
2005-07-22 10:53 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-07-22 22:52 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-07-26 8:56 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-07-27 14:03 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-07-27 14:28 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-07-28 3:20 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-07-28 7:34 ` David Kastrup
2005-07-28 12:51 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-07-29 0:11 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-07-28 3:20 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-07-29 0:37 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-07-28 4:24 ` Masatake YAMATO
2006-04-27 23:05 ` Stuart D. Herring
2006-04-28 14:56 ` Juanma Barranquero
2006-04-29 4:57 ` Stuart D. Herring
2006-04-30 1:16 ` Juanma Barranquero
2006-05-02 15:06 ` Stuart D. Herring
2006-05-02 15:14 ` Juanma Barranquero
2006-05-02 15:42 ` Stuart D. Herring
2006-05-02 17:57 ` Stuart D. Herring
2006-04-28 15:44 ` Richard Stallman
2006-04-29 5:02 ` Stuart D. Herring
2006-04-30 3:03 ` Richard Stallman
2006-05-03 12:48 ` Juri Linkov
2006-05-03 14:37 ` Lars Hansen
2006-05-03 20:43 ` Richard Stallman
2006-05-04 16:27 ` Stuart D. Herring
2006-05-05 6:44 ` Lars Hansen [this message]
2007-06-05 9:24 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-08 21:17 ` Davis Herring
2007-06-08 21:29 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-08 22:05 ` Davis Herring
2007-06-08 22:14 ` Juri Linkov
2007-06-09 0:51 ` Davis Herring
2007-06-09 21:31 ` Juri Linkov
2007-06-10 23:28 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-11 20:54 ` Juri Linkov
2007-06-12 11:21 ` Juanma Barranquero
2006-05-04 16:17 ` Stuart D. Herring
2005-08-08 15:02 ` Lars Hansen
2005-07-22 13:50 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-07-22 14:36 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-07-26 8:27 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-08-08 15:04 ` Lars Hansen
2005-07-22 19:11 ` Lars Hansen
2005-07-22 21:24 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-07-22 22:50 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-07-26 9:11 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-07-27 14:04 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-07-27 14:16 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-07-28 3:20 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-07-29 0:44 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-08-10 9:50 ` Lars Hansen
2005-08-10 11:24 ` Juanma Barranquero
2006-02-09 16:30 ` Juanma Barranquero
2006-02-09 20:00 ` Lars Hansen
2006-02-09 21:11 ` Lars Hansen
2006-02-09 23:46 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-08-10 22:05 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-08-10 23:45 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-08-11 1:12 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-08-11 1:36 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-08-11 3:01 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-08-11 6:12 ` Lars Hansen
2005-08-08 14:51 ` Lars Hansen
2005-08-08 18:35 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-08-09 7:12 ` Lars Hansen
2005-08-09 7:36 ` Lars Hansen
2005-08-09 8:49 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-08-09 9:31 ` David Kastrup
2005-08-09 9:59 ` Juanma Barranquero
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