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bug#24576: 25.1; desktop.el does not fully preserve registers with macro
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Matthew Newton |
Subject: |
bug#24576: 25.1; desktop.el does not fully preserve registers with macros |
Date: |
Wed, 22 May 2019 13:58:06 -0700 |
It seems that the more pressing issue is desktop handling byte code.
> On May 11, 2019, at 5:15 AM, Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Matthew Newton <matt@knosis.org> writes:
>
>> Apologies for reviving a stale bug but it appears to not be resolved yet.
>
> No apologies needed, on the contrary, thank you for looking at it.
>
>> So there seem to be two bugs:
>>
>> 1. `desktop-save-mode` doesn’t serialize/deserialize keyboard macros
>> properly (is it difficult to serialize a function object?)
Would it make sense to simply do something like this?
(defun desktop--v2s (value)
...
(cond
((byte-code-function-p value)
(let* ((pass1 (mapcar #'desktop--v2s value))
(special (assq nil pass1)))
(if special
(cons nil `(make-byte-code
,@(mapcar (lambda (el)
(if (eq (car el) 'must)
`',(cdr el) (cdr el)))
pass1)))
(cons 'may `[,@(mapcar #'cdr pass1)]))))
…))
I copied that from the `cond` clause for vector. It works in my limited testing.
Are there security concerns or other considerations?
>
>> 2. Either :print-func and :insert-func should never be set to
>> “Unprintable entity” or `register-val-describe` should handle the case
>> where they are set to that value instead of a function.
>
> The "unprintable entity" comes from desktop--v2s, looks like it doesn't
> handle compiled function values, so that's why :print-func and
> :insert-func get messed up like that.
>
>> I’ve also seen “Unprintable entity” show up when a buffer position
>> register points to a nonexistent buffer. Not sure how to reproduce
>> that one.
>
> I guess if you save a position in a buffer, then kill the buffer.
>
Here is what I found: if the killed buffer visits a file, it gets converted
into a file-query. If there is no `buffer-file-name` then it stays a file
marker pointing to nowhere. Desktop handles both of those cases correctly. So
while I have seen it happen I’m not sure of the case where a buffer position
register becomes an “Unprintable entity”. Did you find reproduction steps?
Cheers,
Matt