From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: AlFire Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: desktop-read issue on XP - emacs 23.2 or 3 Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:47:36 -0700 Message-ID: <48C9D848.1060904@ggmail.com> References: 48C879C7.2080608@ggmail.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1221191807 28874 80.91.229.12 (12 Sep 2008 03:56:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 03:56:47 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 12 05:57:43 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Kdzmt-0004JV-Oi for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Sep 2008 05:57:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42757 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kdzlt-0005kJ-Et for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:56:37 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 35 Original-X-Trace: individual.net oG6T03g0weS2+r1u9eFeegY9ny16jvO6TeObSc/YA3VDzIBlQD Cancel-Lock: sha1:ifRVuKrLHw8Zs2wtmHL9ods9U4E= User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (X11/20080724) In-Reply-To: Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:162115 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:53:21 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:57461 Archived-At: martin rudalics wrote: > > With .emacs narrowed down to following: > > (custom-set-variables > > '(desktop-save-mode t)) > > (desktop-load-default) > > (desktop-read) > > > > > > I noted a very weird question upon start up (only Windows, Linux is > fine): > > > > > > "Warning: desktop file appears to be in use by PID %s. > > > > > > The PID indicates the emacs itself I am trying to bring up. Any idea > what is wrong? It is really annoying. > > I don't use desktop so I can only speculate. IIUC, > `desktop-load-default' is obsolete since Emacs 22.1. What happens if > you omit it? I did not help - I replaced all existing solution by singe (desktop-save-mode 1) > > so simply typing "y" should load it. But maybe Emacs could check > whether it is the owner of that PID. Are you sure there's no other > Emacs process around? > yes, it was first thing I checked :-)