From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: 17351@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#17351: Trunk emacs splats .emacs.desktop at startup
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2014 11:22:39 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eh0jji5s.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140426180427.GA2944@acm.acm> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Sat, 26 Apr 2014 18:04:27 +0000")
> This is horrible. I started a GUI emacs session, and there were errors
> loading the desktop. I loaded the file .emacs.desktop into my emacs
> session to see what the problem was. And lo and behold, that file had
> already been overwritten by Emacs. :-(
I lost my desktop too. :-( After starting a GUI session, loading the
desktop failed to read \.\.\. characters. I see the only way how
\.\.\. got into the desktop: some mode temporarily changed the buffer-local
value of `print-length' that abbreviated a value while saving the desktop.
I added precautions against this problem on the emacs-24 branch.
But the remaining problem is that it overwrote the desktop with the
broken file while leaving no backups of the previous desktop.
> This is crazy. What's the point of overwriting .emacs.desktop at
> startup? It's either going to be overwriting itself with a functionally
> identical copy, or (as in the current case) its going to be losing
> information needed for debugging.
If after startup you paused for 30 seconds then auto-saving overwrote
your desktop indeed. It seems we need to keep a backup of the desktop
from the previous session when saving the desktop in a new session
for the case when the desktop gets broken by the errors in it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-27 8:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-26 18:04 bug#17351: Trunk emacs splats .emacs.desktop at startup Alan Mackenzie
2014-04-27 8:22 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2014-04-27 9:15 ` Alan Mackenzie
2014-04-27 9:52 ` Juri Linkov
2014-04-27 14:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-04-27 22:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-06-22 7:05 ` Glenn Morris
2014-06-22 23:01 ` Juri Linkov
2014-06-23 0:05 ` Glenn Morris
2014-06-23 22:57 ` Juri Linkov
2014-06-24 18:30 ` Glenn Morris
2014-06-24 23:23 ` Juri Linkov
2014-06-26 19:31 ` Glenn Morris
2014-06-26 23:44 ` Juri Linkov
2014-08-11 1:18 ` Glenn Morris
2014-08-12 6:52 ` Juri Linkov
2014-07-02 23:52 ` Juri Linkov
2014-07-03 2:42 ` Glenn Morris
2014-07-03 23:35 ` Juri Linkov
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