Re: feature request for desktop.el

[Jari Aalto+mail.emacs]

* Sun 2001-03-18 eliz@is.elta.co.il (Eli Zaretskii) gnu.emacs.bug
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| On 17 Mar 2001, Bill Wohler wrote:
| 
| >   On a related note, and perhaps this is what Matt is addressing, it
| >   is really bothersome to be asked of the directory and worse to be
| >   forced to edit the directory.
| 
| You are only asked about this once per directory; thereafter, Emacs
| saves automatically when you kill the session (assuming that you did
| the customizations as explained in the commentary to desktop.el).  If
| you always save the desktop in "~/.emacs.desktop", you should be asked
| about that only once in your lifetime ;-)
| 
| >   I would like desktop-save to *always*
| >   stash the the desktop in ~/.emacs.desktop *without question*. The
| >   current behavior could be evoked with an argument.
| 
| That doesn't seem like a good idea: some people keep a separate
| desktop file in each directory, using them like kind of project
| files.  This is also the reason why suggesting the buffer's default
| directory is not such a preposterous idea after all.
| 
| However, an option that controls this might be a solution that will
| make everybody happy.

Has my proposal been implemented in the Emacs 21, or taken into 
consideration, where a centralized control for all configuration files
were possible? Having aneed to configure each package separately
is not the best idea, especially when they store file directly
under $HOME/.something. It would be more polite to have a prefix
for all files, which user could then chnage (e.g due to version control).

Jari