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bug#22025: Emacs 25 corrupts Emacs 24 .emacs.desktop.
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#22025: Emacs 25 corrupts Emacs 24 .emacs.desktop. |
Date: |
Fri, 27 Nov 2015 11:05:25 +0200 |
> Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2015 08:38:37 +0000
> From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
>
> Emacs 25 has read a version 206 .desktop file, but written a version 208
> file on termination. Emacs 24 cannot execute this version.
>
> There was no yes-or-no-p asking "are you sure you want to convert your
> desktop to a format incompatible with previous Emacs versions?".
>
> Manually restoring a .desktop to version 206 is fraught with
> difficulties, even for somebody (myself) who understands the issues
> reasonably well, and has an old version of .desktop saved "just in
> case".
>
> Recommendation
> --------------
>
> Emacs 25, having loaded a version 206 .desktop, should save it in the
> same format until the user has positively consented to it being
> converted to version 208.
This would be a nice enhancement, but it certainly isn't a bug in my
book.
Of course, if making that happen is relatively easy, it would be good
to have such a compatibility mode. Patches welcome.
I marked it wishlist.