Re: Moving handlers out of desktop.el

[Juri Linkov]

Lars Hansen <address@hidden> writes:
> How about this change:
> 1. Move the functions above to their respective modules and give each
>    an autoload cookie.
>     Also move the two in `desktop-buffer-misc-functions'.
> 2. Add in desktop.el a new variable `desktop-buffer-mode-handlers'
>    with a default value like
>     (('dired-mode . 'desktop-buffer-dired)
>      ('rmail-mode . 'desktop-buffer-rmail)
>      ('mh-folder-mode 'desktop-buffer-mh)
>      ('Info-mode . 'desktop-buffer-info))
> 3. Replace in `desktop-buffer-handlers' the four functions above with
>    a function `desktop-buffer-special-mode' looking in the alist above
>    for a handler.
>
> What do you think about this?

This is somehow related to what is discussed on address@hidden:
if `Info-mode' was able to set a literally visited Info file to Info mode,
then no handler would be needed in desktop.el, because just calling
`Info-mode' from `desktop-buffer-file' on a restored Info file would do
exactly what `desktop-buffer-info' currently does.

If all other special modes would do the same then no new variable like
`desktop-buffer-mode-handlers' will be needed.

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Juri Linkov
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