Re: desktop.el: autosave?

[Reuben Thomas]

On Sun, 9 Dec 2007, Stefan Monnier wrote:

> > > likely to use this feature. Furthermore those concerned about power usage
> > > and disk spin-up only have to worry about the same Emacs feature
> > > (auto-save-hook), and not add another hook or function to their list of
> > > things to tweak.
>
> BTW, how 'bout optimizing disk writes like savehist does: only save the
> new desktop file if it's different from the previous one.  That doesn't
> save you from generating the new file's content in a buffer, of course,
> but still.

I was previously unaware of savehist-mode. What's the point of having both 
it and the history-saving functionality of desktop? Wouldn't it be better 
to remove that functionality from desktop and let users use savehist-mode 
instead? (Or vice versa.)

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