From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A few questions about desktop.el Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 23:03:20 -0400 Message-ID: References: <58643.128.165.123.132.1146179153.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> <25425.128.165.0.81.1146286935.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1146366270 4234 80.91.229.2 (30 Apr 2006 03:04:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 03:04:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 30 05:04:29 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fa2EV-0000r1-KF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Apr 2006 05:04:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fa2EV-0006aV-6a for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Apr 2006 23:04:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Fa2DR-00062O-U0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Apr 2006 23:03:21 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Fa2DR-000626-52 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Apr 2006 23:03:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fa2DR-000623-2n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Apr 2006 23:03:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Fa2Gv-0005AU-Pw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Apr 2006 23:06:57 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1Fa2DQ-0003hQ-5F; Sat, 29 Apr 2006 23:03:20 -0400 Original-To: herring@lanl.gov In-reply-to: <25425.128.165.0.81.1146286935.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> (herring@lanl.gov) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:53630 Archived-At: I don't remember any details--I have just seen enough problems, over the years, with corrupted files that I have reached the conclusion that it is much better not to alter a file when there is no logical reason it should be changed.