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25.1; problem with restoring desktop

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From: John Covici <covici <at> ccs.covici.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 24298 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24298: 25.1; problem with restoring desktop
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 10:53:21 -0400

Now one other bit of information.  If I go back to the following
commit it works correctly
c97cd6c005e138856d99ecef86fa04674c34b779
whereas it is broke on latest git or the rc-2.

Maybe I could do a git bisect, but its very time consuming.

On Wed, 24 Aug 2016 10:23:52 -0400,
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > From: John Covici <covici <at> ccs.covici.com>
> > Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 07:31:03 -0400
> > 
> > I am having a problem restoring my desktop, when there are several
> > buffers.  Instead of restoring the correct buffer as the current one, a
> > random buffer is restored.
> 
> I use desktop.el for a long time, and never had any such problems: I
> always get the buffer that was current when I shut down Emacs.
> 
> > Here is my .emacs file if that would help.
> 
> Hard to analyze such a large file.  One difference from what I have is
> that my ~/.emacs has this single line
> 
>   (desktop-save-mode 1)
> 
> near the very end of the file, whereas you activate desktop-save-mode
> via Customize, and it's not the last thing done in the init file.  So
> maybe what comes after the activation of desktop-save-mode causes the
> problem?

-- 
Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
How do
you spend it?

         John Covici
         covici <at> ccs.covici.com

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