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Trunk emacs splats .emacs.desktop at startup

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>
Cc: tracker <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#17351: closed (Trunk emacs splats .emacs.desktop at startup)
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 06:54:02 +0000

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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.

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Alan Mackenzie.

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From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>,
 17351-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#17351: Trunk emacs splats .emacs.desktop at startup
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 09:52:12 +0300

> I lost track of this.
> Did the "starting Emacs may delete your deskop file" aspect get fixed?
> If so, this can be downgraded to severity normal (or closed).

The fixes already installed in the emacs-24 branch were intended
to reduce the number of cases that might break the desktop file,
so I'm closing this bug report.

The remaining feature to create a backup copy is optional and could be
implemented later for the trunk in a new separate feature request.

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