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29.4; desktop-save-mode does not store window configurations

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From: Bob Hepple <bob.hepple <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 29.4; desktop-save-mode does not store window configurations
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2024 10:41:41 +1000

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From emacs -Q:
M-x desktop-save-mode
C-x r w 0
C-x C-c
restart emacs -Q
C-u M-x desktop-read
C-x r j 0
Error: "Register doesn't contain a buffer position or configuration"

The .emacs.desktop file contains:
(setq register-alist (list (list 48 "Unprintable entity" (let ((mk
(make-marker))) (add-hook 'desktop-delay-hook (lambda nil (set-marker
mk 146 (get-buffer "*scratch*")))) mk))))

... which is useless

https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=54140 is similar but
drifted off into a discussion of terminal mode.

Note that
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Message #8 received at 73593 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Bob Hepple <bob.hepple <at> gmail.com>,
 martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
Cc: 73593 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#73593: 29.4;
 desktop-save-mode does not store window configurations
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2024 09:53:51 +0300

> From: Bob Hepple <bob.hepple <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2024 10:41:41 +1000
> 
> >From emacs -Q:
> M-x desktop-save-mode
> C-x r w 0
> C-x C-c
> restart emacs -Q
> C-u M-x desktop-read
> C-x r j 0
> Error: "Register doesn't contain a buffer position or configuration"
> 
> The .emacs.desktop file contains:
> (setq register-alist (list (list 48 "Unprintable entity" (let ((mk
> (make-marker))) (add-hook 'desktop-delay-hook (lambda nil (set-marker
> mk 146 (get-buffer "*scratch*")))) mk))))
> 
> ... which is useless

Martin, is there any practical way of preserving a
window-configuration across Emacs sessions?  The object
current-window-configuration returns is exposed to Lisp as an opaque
object, and I don't think we can meaningfully serialize it, can we?

So perhaps the solution is to filter such registers from
register-alist when we save desktop?

> https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=54140 is similar but
> drifted off into a discussion of terminal mode.

No, that's a very different issue, and it has been solved long ago,
AFAIR.

Message #11 received at 73593 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Bob Hepple <bob.hepple <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 73593 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#73593: 29.4; desktop-save-mode does not store window
 configurations
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2024 09:41:31 +0200

> Martin, is there any practical way of preserving a
> window-configuration across Emacs sessions?

We added window states for that purpose.

> The object
> current-window-configuration returns is exposed to Lisp as an opaque
> object, and I don't think we can meaningfully serialize it, can we?

It would be very tedious to do that and the result would be something
like a window state anyway.

> So perhaps the solution is to filter such registers from
> register-alist when we save desktop?

This is the most reasonable way IMO.  The other two solutions would be to
optionally proceed as follows:

- Whenever we save a configuration in a register, make a shadow register
  where we save the state and use that when we save the desktop.

- When saving the desktop, temporarily restore the configuration stored
  in the register (if its frame is still live), save the state of that
  frame in a register and restore its configuration again.

For both, register.el would have to be able to handle window states.

martin

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