Re: desktop.el: autosave?

[Juri Linkov]

>>> 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.

There is no sense to remove history saving from desktop.el if there
happens to exist a package that duplicates a part of its functionality.
Why put an additional hassle on users of desktop.el with more configuration?

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/