From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Use emacs.desktop when starting emacs from a particular directory Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2018 20:31:33 +0200 Message-ID: <83muqshcoq.fsf@gnu.org> References: <86pnvolrgq.fsf@dod.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1541097112 4619 195.159.176.226 (1 Nov 2018 18:31:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2018 18:31:52 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 01 19:31:48 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gIHky-00015T-7m for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Nov 2018 19:31:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43509 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gIHn4-0007pN-Jt for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Nov 2018 14:33:58 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56867) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gIHl1-0006he-QE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Nov 2018 14:31:52 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gIHky-0001yM-2I for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Nov 2018 14:31:51 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:36262) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gIHkx-0001yE-UJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Nov 2018 14:31:48 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4696 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1gIHkx-0008RQ-BB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Nov 2018 14:31:47 -0400 In-reply-to: <86pnvolrgq.fsf@dod.no> (message from Steinar Bang on Thu, 01 Nov 2018 16:58:45 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:118549 Archived-At: > From: Steinar Bang > 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.