From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: jan <rtm443x@googlemail.com>
Cc: 41007-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#41007: 26.3; desktop-save and reloading
Date: Fri, 01 May 2020 23:05:30 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83ftcjv2t1.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADJx9Ld-snzFkr---0LMKBE27XvwPhPn052hyQKe-01BRDCGeQ@mail.gmail.com> (bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org)
> Date: Fri, 1 May 2020 20:09:36 +0100
> From: jan via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
> the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
>
> I saved my desktop using desktop-save. I could then find no way of
> restoring it. I looked on the web and found a few others had the same
> problem. Spent an hour browsing.
> I then dug a bit more much later and found desktop-read seemed to do this.
>
> Problem: I was looking for the obvious complement of desktop-save
> which would be desktop-load or desktop-restore. Desktop-read is not
> obviously named.
Thanks, I added the reference to 'desktop-read' to the doc string of
'descktop-save'.
> Other problem, and this is likely just unfamiliarity, but if you do
> desktop-save it asks you where to save it. If you do desktop-read, it
> doesn't ask. Docs say (desktop-read &optional DIRNAME) but that's not
> exposed interactively that I can see.
The doc string of 'desktop-read' says:
Interactively, with prefix arg C-u, ask for DIRNAME.
So it _is_ exposed in interactive calls.
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2020-05-01 19:09 bug#41007: 26.3; desktop-save and reloading jan via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-05-01 20:05 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-05-01 20:37 ` Drew Adams
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