From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alex Schroeder Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: desktop Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 13:34:59 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87lltrryfw.fsf@emacswiki.org> References: <87ekzmsdjs.fsf@emacswiki.org> <3F3DDDF3.4090500@math.ku.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1061206849 15224 80.91.224.253 (18 Aug 2003 11:40:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 11:40:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Lars Hansen , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 18 13:40:47 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19oiNT-0006DJ-00 for ; Mon, 18 Aug 2003 13:40:47 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19oiPn-0005y8-00 for ; Mon, 18 Aug 2003 13:43:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19oiJO-0000ge-KV for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 18 Aug 2003 07:36:34 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19oiJ0-0000b5-An for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Aug 2003 07:36:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19oiIT-0000Fo-9o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Aug 2003 07:36:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [62.2.95.247] (helo=smtp.hispeed.ch) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19oiHw-0008FM-AX; Mon, 18 Aug 2003 07:35:04 -0400 Original-Received: from confusibombus.emacswiki.org (dclient80-218-89-113.hispeed.ch [80.218.89.113]) by smtp.hispeed.ch (8.12.6/8.12.6/tornado-1.0) with ESMTP id h7IBYwGe019537; Mon, 18 Aug 2003 13:34:59 +0200 Original-To: rms@gnu.org Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwCAYAAABXAvmHAAACkElEQVR42s1a0bLsIAgzjv// y7kPd9pVKxKVdk6fzux2C4EAwR6QZBpcQEopIf3Fq3a52Lfh0Mjjk99zcWYBwA2ihEen9jVxfAf/ u0+Y2HQwNoVw4Dx34trRV6NSjiLPmfPt77jwiBxB/3PnZ3B2AGxzHnGu0wcBwAIAyQwZGvQhiFcy YLOFQcSB/MS82n3ec37vykNqRFTX9rVWR2U5+pZNIggll0CUOQN9BDdm1LfBmcZxIEqjL6r2JU/D galaB7Zg4jlY2ulnIx9OR4iMRl38CAFyKaA8jAxE7lNn650VKMULZ/54crqn0YQCJGQliebXkFIK hwqmGm28cgsSjz/hzRCMneQEwMjVoH3gWTtMPgIslJUV5uIluvUEkyzU+gUGQO62e9NuSdZCzNOM fDPC87iCqfE9gHinsIrSL16TPBfrYIeHzqKU90a50jCh54EcrgAUFo5ibzvebgr/I66USQ0CspQp IVSoBQK3WswDDIndIraHxoglqOjM1d044PQvu1NY0EHtqQR/XwJ+PeCs0x2dSlApZVw4MPER23PD 7JekoHxrqTRod/2Gx5nhx5dfAJhqPt7tDMIZxNN/7lOIaparPn7ZQ88drlORC2eLWXowxIq4gHTh VN1BSmsHoxYAbPWDTuGQuuecS+aYQUYpfr0YqPQOuuUk5tApK077+2xfOYP+XyWEIwPcE49lvT9N y2+wU2KylGGp4yxlALcm6fSlmgk62yfSsfNunDl5d6W91MBUoZw679YAJoMMkhijuXdFOL+khaL2 s+g3zy4APQuQvSc/BNAYnkl6E8ivYtEHJXa1dihE3zgnKMdNgN8DiIwgA17NykUMvFDQ+LALvXXI BuBLAHv/DvBmc/0HzR03PqXmLcQAAAAASUVORK5CYII= In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Mon, 18 Aug 2003 00:52:14 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:16006 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:16006 Richard Stallman writes: > > (desktop-load-default) > > (desktop-read) > > (setq desktop-enable t) > Is there any situation in which the user benefits from > having desktop-enable be nil? Do users want that mode of > operation? If not, we could just make desktop-enable t by default. > Why not? As it is, if desktop-enable is non-nil, then loading desktop.el will also enable it. I think that is surprising for users. The correct solution would be to set desktop-enable to t in one of the two other functions. Alex. -- http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/ There is no substitute for experience.