Re: [Emacs-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r100117: Run kill-emacs when exiting for display closed or SIGTERM/HUP.

["Jan D." <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>]

On 2010-05-04 15:54, Stefan Monnier wrote:

> Yes, --chdir solves partially the problem you encountered.  The problem
> with that is the "partially".  Adding a new feature to *partially* fix
> a bug is only a good idea if that bug can't be solved fully some other
> way (e.g. by adding a different feature).

The --chdir was introduced to restore a feature we had earlier, it is 
not a new feature.  It is a new command line option, but an old feature 
w.r.t. session management.


>> This assumes you are using desktop.  If you restart an Emacs without any
>> desktop saved, the default directory is still wrong.  But with --chdir it
>> is not.
>
> If you don't use desktop, then Emacs is restarted in a completely
> different state, so it's really no surprise that the default-directory
> in *scratch* is different.  It's just a very minor detail in
> this respect.

It may be to you, but it is not to me.  I open files all the time from 
*scratch* just because the default directory there is right.  It is a 
bug for Emacs not to restore this after a session restart.

I'd like desktop.el to be more modular so we could save desktop 
automatically in the session specific restore data file.  I tried once, 
but it was so hard coded to use just one file, so I gave up.

>
>> desktop.el would have to add a function to the hook
>> emacs-save-session-functions that stores whatever data it needs to
>> recover.  For example, the desktop file name in use.
>
> That would sound like The Right Way to solve the problem, don't you think?
>

It solves another problem, that of not having the desktop file in Emacs 
current directory.  It still does not solve the problem of default 
directory for buffers like *scratch*.

If I start emacs in /some/dir without a desktop file and have 
desktop-mode enabled, there will be no desktop saved when I log out.
When the session manager then restarts Emacs in $HOME it will read my 
desktop file in $HOME.  That is a bug also.

	Jan D.