From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Use emacs.desktop when starting emacs from a particular directory
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2018 20:31:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83muqshcoq.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86pnvolrgq.fsf@dod.no> (message from Steinar Bang on Thu, 01 Nov 2018 16:58:45 +0100)
> From: Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>
> Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2018 16:58:45 +0100
>
> I would like emacs to use the ~/workspaces/.emacs.desktop when started
> in a particular manner by a script, and not use a desktop file otherwise
> (when SSH'ing in I would like to restore my development session as much
> as possible).
>
> The way I've tried to accomplish it is by starting emacs with the
> following commands:
> cd ~/workspaces
> emacs --eval "(progn (setq desktop-path (expand-file-name \"~/workspaces\")) (desktop-save-mode 1))" >/dev/null 2>&1 &
AFAIK, the above is a mistake: desktop-path should be a list of
strings, not a single string. (I use this feature since time
immemoriam, and it works for me every time.)
P.S. Any variable whose name ends in "-path" signals that it's a list
of directory names.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-01 18:31 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 [this message]
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
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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