Re: desktop.el: autosave?

[Reuben Thomas]

On 10 April 2013 08:05, Juri Linkov <address@hidden> wrote:

> I've been happily using essentially the above code (mostly Juri's, with a
> handful of lines by me) since this thread went quiet over five years ago.

The problem is that the time interval to run auto-save-hook is
not configurable exclusively for desktop mode.  If a user wants
to auto-save the desktop less often than to auto-save files
there is no way to do this.

OTOH, I like the simplicity of the auto-saving feature in savehist
that uses just one option `savehist-autosave-interval' to configure the
interval between autosaves, or nil to disable timer-based auto-saving.

Savehist uses `run-with-timer'.  Why not to do the same in desktop mode?
What are the problems with using `run-with-timer'?

I don't think anyone had a problem with run-with-timer (I just skimmed back through the thread to check), so go ahead and change my patch to use it.

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