From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A few questions about desktop.el Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 09:34:47 +0200 Message-ID: <85ll3rcrjc.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1122555914 23373 80.91.229.2 (28 Jul 2005 13:05:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 13:05:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juanma Barranquero , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 28 15:05:13 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dy83t-0008OR-9V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 15:04:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dy86L-00043S-0c for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 09:07:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Dy81Q-0001Qp-7o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 09:02:00 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Dy81P-0001QY-D9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 09:01:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dy81E-0000vn-Oz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 09:01:48 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Dy7k3-0001vG-1C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 08:44:03 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Dy7Y0-0002Ah-Gx; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 08:31:36 -0400 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 6F9C71C4CD77; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 09:34:48 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard M. Stallman's message of "Wed, 27 Jul 2005 23:20:43 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) 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:41264 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:41264 "Richard M. Stallman" writes: > It's quite useful, and it'll be great the day we can make it > save/restore window and frame configurations. But I don't think > there's an easy way to turn a window configuration into elisp and back > > It is straightforward to do walk-windows and record the size and > contents of each leaf window. It's necessary in addition to record > the structure. I think this can be deduced from that info as > follows: There is no guarantee that the stored desktop file will get used on the same display, not even with the same Emacs. And what if you do emacs -nw ? It sounds like something that has potential for problems, certainly enough to push it till after release. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum