Re: Problems with desktop.el after reecent local-mior-modes changes

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton@gmail.com> writes:

>> Presumably the `override-global-mode` was compiled with Emacs-28, so
>> when you use it with Emacs-27 you get into trouble.
>
> Thanks Stefan, that is indeed the problem: the reference was in
> bind-key.elc. I must have updated the package recently while running
> emacs built from master.
>
> Is there a general way to avoid this kind of problem ?
> Perhaps I need to use separate elpa dirs for each emacs version.

I think `define-minor-mode' could be more helpful here -- that is, it
could check run-time whether the variables in question are bound.  This
should fix this problem when moving between Emacs versions.

I think I'll make that change to Emacs 28 now.

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