From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: calling desktop-read interactively Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2019 07:59:11 +0300 Message-ID: <834l0yl4gw.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83lfubkonz.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="30444"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 27 06:59:28 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iDiLo-0007ls-3H for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Sep 2019 06:59:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46374 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iDiLm-0001yA-FQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Sep 2019 00:59:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:38967) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iDiLh-0001y1-FX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Sep 2019 00:59:22 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:51831) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iDiLh-0004zc-3U; Fri, 27 Sep 2019 00:59:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3321 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1iDiLg-0006z7-Lm; Fri, 27 Sep 2019 00:59:20 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Thu, 26 Sep 2019 15:42:48 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:240320 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2019 15:42:48 -0400 > > >> if you have different "desktops" for different kinds of sessions > >> (e.g. one for email, one for programming, ...) > > Why would you want that, when Emacs has frames, and each frame can be > > set up for different kinds of jobs? > > I always have 2 Emacs sessions running, one for email and one > for programming. Each session uses many frames. I use separate > sessions for them because I don't want to have one operation block > the other (mostly: my email-session being blocked while > sending/receiving messages). Starting Emacs from different directories for each session should satisfy this use case. Although I don't think I understand why the email session needs a desktop file anyway -- what important information is saved in that desktop file?