Re: desktop.el and minor modes

[Lars Hansen]

Juri Linkov wrote:

> It works if dired-x is loaded before custom-set-variables, but this
> requires modifications of existing .emacs to move loading dired-x
> before custom-set-variables.
The issue you brought up was backwards caopatibility. As I tried to 
explain, with respect to dired-omit-files-p, things are not changed. If 
a user sets dired-omit-files-p in .emacs and it works with old dired-x, 
it is because dired-x is loaded before setting dired-omit-files-p. So it 
will continue to work with new dired-x. If a user sets 
dired-omit-files-p in .emacs before dired-x is loaded, it does not work 
with old dired-x, and it does not work with new dired-x. That's backward 
compatibility. There is no need to change .emacs.

> So all what I suggest is to write an appropriate entry in NEWS
> with explanations that `dired-omit-files-p' is obsoleted by
> `dired-omit-mode' minor mode which can be customized now by
> adding `dired-omit-mode' to `dired-mode-hook'.
>  
I will do that.