From: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to disable warnings/questions when using desktop-save-mode?
Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 22:20:09 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jpn18t$q3e$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zk8ztcz7.fsf@math.ethz.ch>
On 5/23/12 4:21 AM, Marius Hofert wrote:
> 1) I have enabled desktop-save mode (with (desktop-save-mode 1)) since I find this
> quite useful. I recently started to use different instances of Emacs (Emacs 24
> GTK Snapshot version on Xubuntu 12.04). Every time I open another instance of
> Emacs, I receive "...Warning: desktop file appears to be in
> use by PID ... Use it anyway? (y or n)". How can I tell Emacs to not ask me but
> always choose y (= yes) here automatically? [I tried (setq desktop-save t) but
> I still obtained the warning.]
(setq desktop-load-locked-desktop t)
> 2) A similar problem appears when a new instance is closed and thus writes to the
> desktop file. When closing an older instance afterwards one then obtains
> "... Desktop file is more recent than the one loaded. Save anyway?". How can I
> tell Emacs to not ask me but choose y (= yes) automatically?
>
> Maybe 2) is solved by choosing "no" in 1) [which I guess is also fine in most cases].
I think you need to make sure each instance has its own value of desktop
base-file-name and/or desktop-base-lock-name, effectively defeating the
locking mechanism altogether. You could do that by appending the PID
returned by (emacs-pid) to those variables in your ~/.emacs:
(setq desktop-base-lock-name
(convert-standard-filename (format ".emacs.desktop.lock-%d" (emacs-pid))))
or:
(eval-after-load 'desktop
'(setq desktop-base-lock-name
(format "%s-%d" desktop-base-lock-name (emacs-pid))))
and probably the same for desktop-base-lock-name.
--
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-25 4:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-23 10:21 How to disable warnings/questions when using desktop-save-mode? Marius Hofert
2012-05-25 4:20 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
2012-05-27 17:32 ` Marius Hofert
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2012-05-24 0:31 ` Xah Lee
2012-05-24 8:05 ` Marius Hofert
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