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: savehist-mode: invalid-read-syntax "#" Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 11:53:24 +0100 Message-ID: <85psn8xo0r.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <87fyo469gn.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1136395837 25834 80.91.229.2 (4 Jan 2006 17:30:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 17:30:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: hniksic@xemacs.org, Reiner Steib , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 04 18:30:32 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 1EuCSZ-0007A0-4U for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2006 18:30:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EuCUF-0006Bd-MW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2006 12:31:47 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EuA97-0005uq-H5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2006 10:01:50 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EuA93-0005tl-Pq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2006 10:01:46 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EuA92-0005tE-8b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2006 10:01:44 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EuAAS-0001QJ-2p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2006 10:03:12 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EuA5u-00012Z-L4; Wed, 04 Jan 2006 09:58:30 -0500 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 447111C4F93D; Wed, 4 Jan 2006 11:53:25 +0100 (CET) Original-To: Juri Linkov In-Reply-To: <87fyo469gn.fsf@jurta.org> (Juri Linkov's message of "Wed, 04 Jan 2006 08:27:44 +0200") 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:48692 Archived-At: Juri Linkov writes: >> Alas, from time to time `savehist-mode' saves entries containing "#" > > Perhaps Emacs should provide a general purpose function (like > `desktop-value-to-string') to print Lisp-readable expressions. You can't make buffers, windows, overlays, yes even markers "Lisp-readable". They are just not restorable by the Lisp reader and so one should find out what causes them to be in the history in the first place. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum