Re: desktop.el: autosave?

[Reuben Thomas]

On Tue, 11 Dec 2007, Richard Stallman wrote:

>    There are many packages in Emacs that have similar functionality.
>    But there are no problems with that.  Every package has its own users.
>
> Actually I wish we had fewer duplicate packages.  They are added complexity.
>
> When duplications have existed for a long time we don't have to get
> rid of the duplicates, but I would like to make one of them clearly
> superior, so it can be the only one we recommend.

So what do you think about this case? Presumably one of desktop and 
savehist-mode should be marked as the preferred way of saving history.

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