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* bug#17090: desktop.el saves unusable register data in register-alist
@ 2014-03-24 20:31 Juanma Barranquero
  2019-09-29 14:42 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Juanma Barranquero @ 2014-03-24 20:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 17090

Package: Emacs
Severity: minor

emacs -Q -f desktop-save-mode
C-x r w a
C-x C-x
y <RET>
emacs -Q -f desktop-read
C-x r j

=> a: rectangle starting with Unprintable entity

and similarly, when using
C-x r f a

restoring and then C-x r j  brings

Error running timer: (invalid function "Unprintable entity")

register-alist is in desktop-globals-to-save by default, so it should
work out of the box. but any fix is going to be ugly.

Possibilities:

- Cleaning register-alist from desktop-save-hook. Not a good idea
because the session does not necessarily end on desktop-saving (and
even less now, with timer-based saving).

- Modify desktop-outvar to skip anything whose serialization matches
"Unprintable entity".

- Modify desktop-outvar with register-alist specific knowledge, so it
filters out only some entries when serializing.

- Design a more generic mechanism to allow variables to have cleaning
specific functions.

The first three options are horribly hackish, and the last one is a
bit overkill if we only want to avoid the register-alist issue (the
mechanism would be generally useful, but no one has ever asked for
it...)

Ideas?





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2014-03-24 20:31 bug#17090: desktop.el saves unusable register data in register-alist Juanma Barranquero
2019-09-29 14:42 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-09-29 14:59   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-09-29 16:17     ` Juanma Barranquero
2019-09-30  4:40       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-09-30  8:10         ` Juanma Barranquero
2019-10-07 18:28       ` Juri Linkov

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