GNU bug report logs - #79150
30.1; org-persist annoyance

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From: Thierry Volpiatto <thievol <at> posteo.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Thierry Volpiatto <thievol <at> posteo.net>, 79150 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#79150: 30.1; org-persist annoyance
Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2025 14:09:11 +0000

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Thierry Volpiatto <thievol <at> posteo.net>
>> Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2025 08:58:01 +0000
>> 
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I thought I have desactived org-persist for good by advicing org-persist-register
>> but things have changed again and even with this org-persist continue to
>> create a directory in ~/.cache/.  So I deleted this directory, then I
>> restarted emacs and try to set org-directory to nil which is not allowed
>> apparently. I restarted emacs again and had an error something like
>> wrong-type-argument nil (for org-directory I imagine) and a y-or-n-p to
>> continue or not, I said yes, emacs restarted but all my config files had
>> been deleted, init.el, early-init, gnus etc... hopefully all these files
>> are under git and I restored all.  I finally found how to disable this
>> org-persist annoyance by advicing a bunch of functions to 'ignore and
>> disabling some hooks.
>> IIRC this have been already reported and requested in the past to
>> provide an easy way to disable this evil thing, but it seems it is
>> always here, thus now it may corrupt elisp files unrelated to org.
>
> Thanks.
>
> This bug reports sounds like it's Org-specific?  If so, please report
> it to the Org developers first.

Done, thanks.


-- 
Thierry

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