bug#25083: 26.0.50; poor interaction between flymake and desktop-save-mode

[Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org>]

the flymake command is "epylint" and it worked because exec-path was
modified by pyvenv-workon.
I am not sure exec-path should be saved by desktop.
thanks!

On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 2:41 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> From: Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org>
>> Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2016 14:13:20 -0500
>>
>> When I start Emacs after editing a bunch of Python files,
>> desktop-save-mode restores them and flymake starts syntax checking
>> processes in each of them.
>>
>> However, there is a snag: python virtual environments.
>> Basically, each python projects uses a separate virtual environments
>> which includes its own python packages, and, moreover, its own python
>> and pylint executables(!)
>>
>> This means that flymake fails to find the epylint executable and
>> displays a GUI popup(!) for each(!) python file that I edited in the
>> previous session.  Note that this failure should _not_ be fatal (see PS
>> below).
>
> Isn't there some variable(s) which you could instruct desktop.el to
> save, in order to avoid these problems?  IOW, why doesn't desktop
> restore whatever setup you had before shutting down Emacs, which
> avoided the prompts at that time?



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