From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Laudeman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#6948: 23.1; incorrect documentation for desktop-save-mode Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 09:59:49 -0400 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1283183315 5388 80.91.229.12 (30 Aug 2010 15:48:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:48:35 +0000 (UTC) To: 6948@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 30 17:48:30 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oq6ax-00067Z-LE for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:48:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53185 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Oq6aw-0007uV-M9 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Mon, 30 Aug 2010 06:59:49 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.101.64.20 with HTTP; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 06:59:49 -0700 (PDT) X-UVA-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at fork9.mail.virginia.edu X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 10:33:28 -0400 X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 10:34:02 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 11:45:48 -0400 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:39833 Archived-At: Hi, This web page: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Saving-Emacs-Sessions.html incompletely says: "... when Emacs starts, it looks for a saved desktop in the current directory." Emacs currently looks in "." and "~" for a saved desktop. I suggest you change the text and add a note that this setting can be changed by customizing the variable destkop-path or by adding a line to your init file, such as: (setq destkop-path ".") Thanks! Tom In GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.18.9) of 2010-05-21 on x86-02.phx2.fedoraproject.org Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10402000 configured using `configure '--build=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu' '--host=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu' '--target=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu' ' --program-prefix=' '--prefix=/usr' '--exec-prefix=/usr' '--bindir=/usr/bin' '--sbindir=/usr/sbin' '--sysconfdir=/etc' '--datadir=/us r/share' '--includedir=/usr/include' '--libdir=/usr/lib64' '--libexecdir=/usr/libexec' '--localstatedir=/var' '--sharedstatedir=/var /lib' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--with-dbus' '--with-gif' '--with-jpeg' '--with-png' '--with-rsvg' '--w ith-tiff' '--with-xft' '--with-xpm' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk' 'build_alias=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu ' 'target_alias=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-DMAIL_USE_LOCKF -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-pr otector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic'' Important settings: value of $LC_ALL: nil value of $LC_COLLATE: nil value of $LC_CTYPE: nil value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil value of $LC_MONETARY: nil value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil value of $LC_TIME: nil value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8 value of $XMODIFIERS: nil locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix default-enable-multibyte-characters: t Major mode: Emacs-Lisp Minor modes in effect: shell-dirtrack-mode: t user-minor-mode: t cua-mode: t global-auto-complete-mode: t auto-complete-mode: t desktop-save-mode: t tooltip-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t global-auto-composition-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Recent input: C-x C-r ~ / . e m a C-x t ESC x r e p o r t Recent messages: Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/puppet-mode-init.el (source)...done Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/rpm-spec-mode-init.el (source)...done Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/rpmdev-init.el (source)...done Ido mode enabled No desktop file. For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a. Loading vc-svn...done Loading tramp...done Font-Lock mode disabled Making completion list... -- Tom Laudeman, AIMS programmer twl8n@virginia.edu (434) 924-6732 http://www.people.virginia.edu/~twl8n/ http://laudeman.com/