Re: GUI vs TTY when saving & restoring framesets

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2017 18:00:10 +0000
> Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
> 
> #23630 is not fixed.  I've just tried it.....
> 
> > FWIW, when I finished working on bug#24298, I no longer saw incorrect
> > order of buffers after restoring the desktop: their order was always
> > the same, as long as I restored from the same desktop file.  Maybe you
> > just don't like the order in which desktop.el puts them in the desktop
> > file?
> 
> ... on master.  I had four frames open, cycled through them, then did
> C-x C-c, creating the desktop file and exiting.
> 
> I restarted Emacs, which created the four frames, and then did C-x C-b.
> The second entry there was *scratch*.  This was not any of the four
> buffers which were in the frames' windows when I previously shut down.

??? The *scratch* buffer is created in any Emacs session regardless of
the saved desktop.  So why isn't the above TRT?  When did Emacs and
desktop.el behave differently?

> Other than that, the order of the buffers in C-x C-b is the reverse of
> the order in my desktop file.

Why is that a problem?  The order of buffers in the desktop file is
not something a user is supposed to look at, or care about.