Re: A few questions about desktop.el

["Juanma Barranquero" <lekktu@gmail.com>]

On 4/29/06, Stuart D. Herring <herring@lanl.gov> wrote:
> So I'll move the check before the desktop
> file is ever opened when I do that (Monday or so).

Cool.

> But I realized that
> there's no assumption made by desktop.el that you have only one file; just
> because this Emacs session isn't associated with the desktop file you
> originally tried to load doesn't mean it shouldn't be associated with
> another.  But since it doesn't know which other one, it asks!  It's really
> a feature... sorta.

Yes, I undestand that. That's why I said "for certain values of
desktop-save". I should've added "and for certain uses of desktop".
For example, when you're mainly using a single desktop file in your
$HOME (as I do) instead of per-directory desktop files (which are
*very* rare in my setup). In that case, if-exists or ask-if-exists are
two useful desktop-save values, and being asked about saving a new one
is inconvenient.

> there could be a customization option to
> disable Desktop if you refuse to re-load the file.

A not-loaded hook, as I proposed, would serve the same function and be
a bit more general, I think.

> Pressing C-l will clear this up, so long as you realize that you're in the
> minibuffer and need it redrawn.

Yes, realizing that is the problem. But, as I said, is not a problem
with your implementation.

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