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Suggested patch for desktop.el, and 'slothful' lazy file loading
From: |
Paul Sexton |
Subject: |
Suggested patch for desktop.el, and 'slothful' lazy file loading |
Date: |
Mon, 11 Apr 2011 04:31:02 +0000 (UTC) |
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Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) |
Apologies if this is the wrong place to send a message like this. I
originally sent it the email address of the maintainer of desktop.el,
address@hidden, but that address is dead.
I have been using desktop.el in "lazy" mode i.e. with the settings
(setq desktop-restore-eager 10)
(setq desktop-lazy-verbose nil)
This is supposed to make it load the first 10 files normally, then load the
rest "in the background" when Emacs is idle.
I have found that although the extra buffers are loaded in the
background, after each buffer is loaded the display still switches to
that buffer. This is very disconcerting - you are trying to work in
buffer A but you are constantly switched against your will to
viewing buffer B, C, D, etc, as they are loaded.
The following trivial patch seems to fix this, and I have not encountered any
problems so far with it.
--- D:/paul/desktop.el Fri Apr 08 08:21:40 2011
+++ D:/paul/desktop-new.el Fri Apr 08 08:22:27 2011
@@ -1082,9 +1082,7 @@
(cdr (assq 'buffer-file-coding-system
desktop-buffer-locals))))
(buf (find-file-noselect desktop-buffer-file-name)))
- (condition-case nil
- (switch-to-buffer buf)
- (error (pop-to-buffer buf)))
+ (set-buffer buf)
(and (not (eq major-mode desktop-buffer-major-mode))
(functionp desktop-buffer-major-mode)
(funcall desktop-buffer-major-mode))
Also, I have written an emacs extension called 'slothful' which allows
true lazy loading of files - instead of actually loading the file, an
empty buffer is created pointing the file, and it automatically loads
only when the buffer is first displayed. I think this might be an
interesting addition to desktop. I have tested it myself, just loading
individual files.
If anyone wants to have a look at it the repository is at:
https://bitbucket.org/eeeickythump/slothful
Cheers
Paul
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