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 00:18:34 +0100 Message-ID: <867ehvkr05.fsf@dod.no> References: <86pnvolrgq.fsf@dod.no> <83muqshcoq.fsf@gnu.org> <86ftwjl23x.fsf@dod.no> <83sh0jf9nw.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1541200636 23048 195.159.176.226 (2 Nov 2018 23:17:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2018 23:17:16 +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 00:17:12 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 1gIigh-0005tg-Tl for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Nov 2018 00:17:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53674 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gIiin-0002ZQ-MH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Nov 2018 19:19:21 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49605) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gIiiK-0002ZA-St for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Nov 2018 19:18:53 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gIiiH-0005sq-IA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Nov 2018 19:18:52 -0400 Original-Received: from cadalora.default.sbang.uk0.bigv.io ([46.43.15.90]:58838 helo=cadalora.bang.priv.no) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gIiiH-0005gp-7c for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Nov 2018 19:18:49 -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 65608CDFF7 for ; Fri, 2 Nov 2018 23:18:35 +0000 (GMT) In-Reply-To: <83sh0jf9nw.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 02 Nov 2018 23:32:03 +0200") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 46.43.15.90 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:118566 Archived-At: >>>>> Eli Zaretskii : > 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.