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Trunk emacs splats .emacs.desktop at startup

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From: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Trunk emacs splats .emacs.desktop at startup
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2014 18:04:27 +0000

Hello,  Emacs.

This is horrible.  I started a GUI emacs session, and there were errors
loading the desktop.  I loaded the file .emacs.desktop into my emacs
session to see what the problem was.  And lo and behold, that file had
already been overwritten by Emacs.  :-(

This is crazy.  What's the point of overwriting .emacs.desktop at
startup?  It's either going to be overwriting itself with a functionally
identical copy, or (as in the current case) its going to be losing
information needed for debugging.

This is surely a bug.

My trunk is at revision number 116992.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie.

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