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Trunk emacs splats .emacs.desktop at startup |
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Sat, 26 Apr 2014 18:04:27 +0000 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
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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Re: bug#17351: Trunk emacs splats .emacs.desktop at startup |
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Tue, 12 Aug 2014 09:52:12 +0300 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) |
> 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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