bug#39791: 26.3; auto-save-list-file-name should not be deleted when Emacs is terminated by SIGHUP

[Stefan Kangas]

tags 39791 + wontfix notabug
close 39791
thanks

"Edward J. Sabol" via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife
of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:

>> Have you ever tried desktop-save-mode? Perhaps that would be a good
>> fit for your use case.
>
> Thank you for the suggestion, Stefan. I've looked at desktop-save-mode in the
> past, but I haven't tried it. From what I recalled, it seemed to save and
> restore things which I don't really want restored (like variables?!), and I
> think it only works with a single session. But maybe I can fix that by
> changing the desktop-save-mode save file on a per-host basis. I'll look into
> it further.

You could try customizing `desktop-globals-to-save' and
`desktop-locals-to-save' to match your needs.

For different sessions, you could look into `desktop-dirname'.

> I still don't think the auto-save-list-file-name file should be deleted on
> SIGHUP, but I won't be offended if you close this bug as "won't fix" or some
> such, assuming you all disagree.

I think this sounds like a wontfix, indeed.  So I'm closing this bug now.

If you find that any features you need for your use case is missing from
desktop.el, I would encourage you to send feature requests to this list.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas