Re: How to disable warnings/questions when using desktop-save-mode?

[Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com>]

On May 23, 3:21 am, Marius Hofert <marius.hof...@math.ethz.ch> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 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.]
>
> 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].
>
> Cheers,
>
> Marius

see the desktop section at

http://code.google.com/p/ergoemacs/source/browse/trunk/ergoemacs/init_settings.el

 Xat