RE: desktop.el: autosave?

[Reuben Thomas]

On Mon, 10 Dec 2007, Drew Adams wrote:

> > 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.)
>
> Certainly not vice versa. A user might want to save histories but not all
> the rest.

That's configurable, of course: you could use desktop to save only your 
histories. I agree, though, that from where we stand now it'd be easier to 
make desktop not save minibuffer histories than to make it easy to configure 
to save only minibuffer histories. I suspect that there are more users using 
savehist to save their histories too. It would be easy to point desktop 
users at savehist-mode.

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