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From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
To: bob@rattlesnake.com
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Startup screen default directory
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 23:30:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878x1px4mj.fsf@jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1JOkG4-002K4LC@rattlesnake.com> (Robert J. Chassell's message of "Tue, 12 Feb 2008 01:48:28 +0000 (UTC)")

> In my major instance of GNU Emacs, I load over 20 files from a saved
> desktop, but my `desktop-save-mode' variable is nil because I want
> always to load the same files, but often look at others that I do not
> necessarily want the next time I start Emacs.
>
> On the other hand, in a root owned instance, in a `when' expression, I
> evoke
>
>   (desktop-save-mode 1)
>   (desktop-read "/root")
>
> The root owned instance says:
>
>     desktop-save-mode is a variable defined in `desktop.el'.
>     Its value is t

A more relevant variable that determines if the desktop was really
loaded and that it created some buffers is `desktop-buffer-ok-count'.

Currently it is locally bound in `desktop-read' but could be changed
to be global.  So if `desktop-buffer-ok-count' > 0 then don't show
the startup screen.

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




  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-12 21:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-10 23:29 Startup screen default directory Juri Linkov
2008-02-11 13:34 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-12  0:14   ` Juri Linkov
2008-02-12  1:48     ` Robert J. Chassell
2008-02-12 21:30       ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2008-02-12 22:31         ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-12 23:42           ` Juri Linkov
2008-02-13  2:21         ` Robert J. Chassell
2008-02-12  3:51     ` Richard Stallman

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