Re: How to restore the layout?

[Stephen Leake]

Juanma Barranquero <address@hidden> writes:

> On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Stephen Leake
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Prompt the user.
>
> Not so sure. If you invoke desktop-read interactively, it could make
> sense (or we could add an argument, so C-u M-x desktop-read selects
> the alternate behavior). But in the most common case, which is (likely
> to be) running desktop-read from after-init-hook (which is
> automatically done now if you enable desktop-mode), I don't think
> asking the user is the way to go. Far from it.

Can you elaborate? what is wrong with prompting the user from
after-init-hook?

The doc for after-init-hook says it is run "after initializing the Emacs
session". It does not mention displays, so I assume the default display
is available for prompting the user.

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