From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#17090: desktop.el saves unusable register data in register-alist Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2019 06:40:19 +0200 Message-ID: <87pnji8ki4.fsf@gnus.org> References: <87tv8vgo4n.fsf@gnus.org> <87a7angnbk.fsf@gnus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="147952"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: 17090@debbugs.gnu.org To: Juanma Barranquero Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 30 06:58:36 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iEnlc-000cMG-AU for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Sep 2019 06:58:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45438 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iEnlb-0008Fk-7r for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Sep 2019 00:58:35 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:54242) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iEnlH-0008FZ-GN for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Sep 2019 00:58:16 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iEnlD-0004gi-P0 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Sep 2019 00:58:15 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:47669) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iEnUc-0006Jz-Nu for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Sep 2019 00:41:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iEnUc-0002Wc-J6 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Sep 2019 00:41:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2019 04:41:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 17090 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 17090-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B17090.15698184259641 (code B ref 17090); Mon, 30 Sep 2019 04:41:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 17090) by debbugs.gnu.org; 30 Sep 2019 04:40:25 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56490 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iEnU1-0002VR-CJ for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 30 Sep 2019 00:40:25 -0400 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]:42742) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iEnU0-0002VI-5N for 17090@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 30 Sep 2019 00:40:24 -0400 Original-Received: from cm-84.212.202.86.getinternet.no ([84.212.202.86] helo=marnie) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iEnTw-0002lX-7c; Mon, 30 Sep 2019 06:40:22 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Sun, 29 Sep 2019 18:17:24 +0200") X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:167805 Archived-At: Juanma Barranquero writes: > But, I suppose it is perhaps not worth fixing now, because after that > we implemented framesets, and you can do > > C-x r f a > > and the frameset in register a is saved and correctly reloaded > afterwards. It's a bit of an overkill, of course. > > If we want to fix it, perhaps we could trick our way, by using > framesets to save a one-frame frameset with some special info to mark > that it is really intended to be just a window-configuration, and > then, when reloading the desktop, restoring somehow the window > configuration into the register, from the frameset data. No idea if it > is worth the effort, but I think it would be doable. It sounds like we should perhaps refer users to the C-x r f a command instead... But in any case, desktop.el probably shouldn't be saving these useless window configuration registers. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no