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bug#3833: 23.0.96; Default for desktop-buffers-not-to-save omits files
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#3833: 23.0.96; Default for desktop-buffers-not-to-save omits files |
Date: |
Sun, 12 Jul 2009 21:06:34 +0300 |
I restarted Emacs today on one of my machines (because I built a new
version), and suddenly some of the files I worked on in the previous
session were not visited by Emacs. It took time for me to find which
files I was working on, because I don't keep records of all of the
files I have in my session: I trust desktop.el to do that.
Looking in desktop.el, I see that desktop-buffers-not-to-save
intentionally omits buffers whose names end in ".log" and a couple
others. Sure thing, the files that were not visited after restarting
ended in ".log".
I think that variable's default should be nil. I think it is up to
the user to decide that she doesn't want to record some of the
buffers/files. It is no business of desktop.el to decide for the
user. Especially since there is no way of telling desktop.el to
override the value of desktop-buffers-not-to-save for some specific
buffer, short of renaming the buffer.
Similarly with desktop-files-not-to-save: its default should be nil,
IMO.
In GNU Emacs 23.0.96.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
of 2009-07-11 on HOME-C4E4A596F7
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4)'
Important settings:
value of $LC_ALL: nil
value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
value of $LC_TIME: nil
value of $LANG: ENU
value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
locale-coding-system: cp1255
default-enable-multibyte-characters: t
Major mode: Mail
Minor modes in effect:
flyspell-mode: t
desktop-save-mode: t
show-paren-mode: t
display-time-mode: t
tooltip-mode: t
tool-bar-mode: t
mouse-wheel-mode: t
menu-bar-mode: t
file-name-shadow-mode: t
global-font-lock-mode: t
font-lock-mode: t
blink-cursor-mode: t
global-auto-composition-mode: t
auto-composition-mode: t
auto-encryption-mode: t
auto-compression-mode: t
temp-buffer-resize-mode: t
line-number-mode: t
abbrev-mode: t
- bug#3833: 23.0.96; Default for desktop-buffers-not-to-save omits files,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#3833: 23.0.96; Default for desktop-buffers-not-to-save omits files, Chong Yidong, 2009/07/12
- bug#3833: 23.0.96; Default for desktop-buffers-not-to-save omits files, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/07/12
- bug#3833: 23.0.96; Default for desktop-buffers-not-to-save omits files, Reiner Steib, 2009/07/12
- bug#3833: 23.0.96; Default for desktop-buffers-not-to-save omits files, Chong Yidong, 2009/07/12
- bug#3833: 23.0.96; Default for desktop-buffers-not-to-save omits files, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/07/12
- bug#3833: 23.0.96; Default for desktop-buffers-not-to-save omits files, Chong Yidong, 2009/07/13
- bug#3833: 23.0.96; Default for desktop-buffers-not-to-save omits files, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/07/13
- bug#3833: 23.0.96; Default for desktop-buffers-not-to-save omits files, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/07/16
- bug#3833: 23.0.96; Default for desktop-buffers-not-to-save omits files, Stefan Monnier, 2009/07/14