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From: Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Use emacs.desktop when starting emacs from a particular directory
Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2018 09:01:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86y3aak2sc.fsf@dod.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwva7mq6ef7.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.help@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Fri, 02 Nov 2018 23:15:59 -0400")

>>>>> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>:

>> emacs --eval "(progn (progn (setq desktop-path (list (expand-file-name \"~/workspaces\"))) (desktop-save-mode 1)) (desktop-save-mode 1))" >/dev/null 2>&1 &

> desktop.el only automatically reads the desktop file if
> desktop-save-mode is enabled and only right after reading the init
> file.  So in the example above, desktop-save-mode is enabled too late
> but this to trigger, hence you'd need to explicitly ask desktop to
> read the file (by calling `desktop-read`).

Hm... what I actually want is to use a desktop file if it is in the
directory I'm starting in, but not otherwise.  I guess a subset of Eli's
value would be the right thing of desktop-path would be the right thing.

Should I move the setting back into .emacs instead of the --eval, and
only call (desktop-save-mode 1) if the file is present?

> BTW, why to you call (desktop-save-mode 1) twice?

Copy-paste error.  Thanks for catching it!



  reply	other threads:[~2018-11-03  8:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-01 15:58 Use emacs.desktop when starting emacs from a particular directory Steinar Bang
2018-11-01 18:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-11-02 19:18   ` Steinar Bang
2018-11-02 20:23     ` Stefan Monnier
2018-11-02 21:08       ` Steinar Bang
2018-11-02 21:20         ` Stefan Monnier
2018-11-02 23:41           ` Steinar Bang
2018-11-03  3:15             ` Stefan Monnier
2018-11-03  8:01               ` Steinar Bang [this message]
2018-11-03  8:03               ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-11-03  8:40                 ` Steinar Bang
2018-11-02 21:32     ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-11-02 23:18       ` Steinar Bang

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