Re: savehist-mode: invalid-read-syntax "#"

[Juri Linkov]

>> Perhaps Emacs should provide a general purpose function (like
>> `desktop-value-to-string') to print Lisp-readable expressions.
>
> You can't make buffers, windows, overlays, yes even markers
> "Lisp-readable".  They are just not restorable by the Lisp reader and
> so one should find out what causes them to be in the history in the
> first place.

Please look at the functions `desktop-value-to-string' and
`desktop-internal-v2s'.  Surely, they can't keep and restore the
values of buffers, windows, overlays and markers, but at least
they don't create unreadable strings.

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Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/