From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Steinar Bang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Use emacs.desktop when starting emacs from a particular directory Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2018 00:41:46 +0100 Message-ID: <8636sjkpxh.fsf@dod.no> References: <86pnvolrgq.fsf@dod.no> <83muqshcoq.fsf@gnu.org> <86ftwjl23x.fsf@dod.no> <86bm77kx0y.fsf@dod.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1541202027 23785 195.159.176.226 (2 Nov 2018 23:40:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2018 23:40:27 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.2 (windows-nt) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 03 00:40:23 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 1gIj38-00066J-SW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Nov 2018 00:40:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53723 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gIj5F-00037v-Cx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Nov 2018 19:42:33 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59054) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gIj4q-00037e-Nq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Nov 2018 19:42:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gIj4m-0008Do-HZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Nov 2018 19:42:08 -0400 Original-Received: from cadalora.default.sbang.uk0.bigv.io ([2001:41c9:1:424::90]:42428 helo=cadalora.bang.priv.no) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gIj4l-0007yQ-MM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Nov 2018 19:42:04 -0400 Original-Received: from mccoy (cm-84.212.50.160.getinternet.no [84.212.50.160]) by cadalora.bang.priv.no (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 260AFCDFF7 for ; Fri, 2 Nov 2018 23:41:47 +0000 (GMT) In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Fri, 02 Nov 2018 17:20:55 -0400") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 2001:41c9:1:424::90 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:118567 Archived-At: >>>>> Stefan Monnier : > Can you figure out *when*? AFAIK Emacs's desktop normally doesn't > choose a desktop file for the user, it should always prompt (or reuse > an existing file). So the behavior you describe doesn't match > my expectation. Could it be that you set `desktop-dirname` somewhere in > your customization (maybe in the desktop file itself)? I found this at the end of my .emacs ;; Only GNU Emacs supports this desktop session restore (if (not running-xemacs) (progn (desktop-load-default) (desktop-read))) Annotate says this is from March 12 2002 (but it's probably older. It's around the time I organized my RCS versioned config files into a CVS archive with branches (later transformed in to a subversion repository and eventually a git repository)) I removed this, moved .emacs.d/.emacs.desktop (from the last session) to ~/workspaces and re-ran the script. This time I got an error message setq: Symbol=E2=80=99s value as variable is void: desktop-path which is probably push complaining. I've changed the script to cd ~/workspaces emacs --eval "(progn (progn (setq desktop-path (list (expand-file-name \"~= /workspaces\"))) (desktop-save-mode 1)) (desktop-save-mode 1))" >/dev/null = 2>&1 & Now emacs doesn't have an error message, does not restore any windows, but on emacs exit: 1. asks if the desktop files should be written 2. prompts for the directory to save in, with ~/workspaces as the default 3. says that there is an existing desktop file in this directory, and that the current session was not loaded from a desktop file, and should it overwrite the file yes/no I let emacs overwrite the file and restarted using the script. But the behaviour was the same. I'll look more at it tomorrow. Thanks again!