Re: desktop

[Alex Schroeder]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     >     (desktop-load-default)
>     >     (desktop-read)
>     >     (setq desktop-enable t)

> Is there any situation in which the user benefits from
> having desktop-enable be nil?  Do users want that mode of
> operation?  If not, we could just make desktop-enable t by default.
> Why not?

As it is, if desktop-enable is non-nil, then loading desktop.el will
also enable it.  I think that is surprising for users.

The correct solution would be to set desktop-enable to t in one of the
two other functions.

Alex.
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