bug#3833: 23.0.96; Default for desktop-buffers-not-to-save omits files
Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]>
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I restarted Emacs today on one of my machines (because I built a new version), and suddenly some of the files I worked on in the previous session were not visited by Emacs. It took time for me to find which files I was working on, because I don't keep records of all of the files I have in my session: I trust desktop.el to do that. Looking in desktop.el, I see that desktop-buffers-not-to-save intentionally omits buffers whose names end in ".log" and a couple others. Sure thing, the files that were not visited after restarting ended in ".log". I think that variable's default should be nil. I think it is up to the user to decide that she doesn't want to record some of the buffers/files. It is no business of desktop.el to decide for the user. Especially since there is no way of telling desktop.el to override the value of desktop-buffers-not-to-save for some specific buffer, short of renaming the buffer. Similarly with desktop-files-not-to-save: its default should be nil, IMO. In GNU Emacs 23.0.96.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2009-07-11 on HOME-C4E4A596F7 Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600 configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4)' Important settings: value of $LC_ALL: nil value of $LC_COLLATE: nil value of $LC_CTYPE: nil value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil value of $LC_MONETARY: nil value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil value of $LC_TIME: nil value of $LANG: ENU value of $XMODIFIERS: nil locale-coding-system: cp1255 default-enable-multibyte-characters: t Major mode: Mail Minor modes in effect: flyspell-mode: t desktop-save-mode: t show-paren-mode: t display-time-mode: t tooltip-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t global-auto-composition-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t temp-buffer-resize-mode: t line-number-mode: t abbrev-mode: t