GNU bug report logs - #17351
Trunk emacs splats .emacs.desktop at startup

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>

Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2014 18:09:02 UTC

Severity: important

Done: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #23 received at 17351 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>, Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>,
 17351 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#17351: Trunk emacs splats .emacs.desktop at startup
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2014 03:05:24 -0400

As a stopgap, how about disabling the autosave (with a warning, eg
"error loading desktop; automatic save disabled until next manual save")
if there were errors loading the desktop at startup?

More generally, why does the autosaving actually save directly into the
real desktop file? Why doesn't it use the normal autosave mechanism, ie
write to a #desktop# file? Naively, it seems like this would be both
simpler to implement and give better results.
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