Re: desktop.el and minor modes

[Lars Hansen]

Juri Linkov wrote:

> However, this change is not backward compatible.  I can't tell how serious
> this problem is, but users who have the old variable `dired-omit-files-p'
> customized in their .emacs may discover that it doesn't work anymore.
> The reason is that old `dired-omit-files-p' was a global variable
> defined by defcustom, but `dired-omit-mode' is a minor mode defined
> without `:global t' argument.
>  
I don't see the problem. dired-omit-files-p was buffer-local before my 
changes just as dired-omit-mode is now.
According to my test (with vanilla Emacs 21.2 and vanilla CVS Emacs), 
things work the same way when dired-omit-files-p is set in .emacs:
With the following two lines in .emacs

 (require 'dired-x)
 (setq-default dired-omit-files-p t)

omit mode is turned on globally. Observe that setq won't work.