From: Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Use emacs.desktop when starting emacs from a particular directory
Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2018 00:18:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <867ehvkr05.fsf@dod.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83sh0jf9nw.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 02 Nov 2018 23:32:03 +0200")
>>>>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>:
> First, why do you use 'push' instead of 'setq'? Don't you want to
> replace desktop-path for this invocation?
Habit I guess... I always treat paths that way: add to the start and
keep the existing value.
> Second, is there actually an .emacs.desktop file in the ~/workspaces
> directory?
Yes.
> Here's what I do for a long time in my .emacs:
> (setq desktop-path '("." ".." "../.." "../../.."))
> (desktop-save-mode 1)
> Then starting Emacs in a directory with a .emacs.desktop file reads
> that desktop file. So this feature works, it's just that something in
> your case prevents it from working for you. Perhaps some debugging is
> in order.
Right. Thanks! Stefan suggested checking my config to see if I had
some (forgotten) desktop setting there.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-02 23:18 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
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 [this message]
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