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: Use emacs.desktop when starting emacs from a particular directory Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2018 16:58:45 +0100 Message-ID: <86pnvolrgq.fsf@dod.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1541087869 16571 195.159.176.226 (1 Nov 2018 15:57:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2018 15:57:49 +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 Thu Nov 01 16:57:45 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 1gIFLs-0004BX-8k for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Nov 2018 16:57:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42744 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gIFNy-0003k1-GG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Nov 2018 11:59:54 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41552) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gIFNI-0003iJ-1F for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Nov 2018 11:59:12 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gIFND-00029H-Vk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Nov 2018 11:59:11 -0400 Original-Received: from cadalora.default.sbang.uk0.bigv.io ([46.43.15.90]:49382 helo=cadalora.bang.priv.no) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gIFND-000224-NM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Nov 2018 11:59:07 -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 E2329CE186 for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2018 15:58:44 +0000 (GMT) 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:118548 Archived-At: Platform: debian 9.1 "stretch", amd64 emacs 25.1 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 & However, the desktop file used is actually ~/.emacs.d/.emacs.desktop and a ~/.emacs.d/.emacs.desktop.lock file is created as well, and all emacses started by my user on this computer tries to use the desktop file (which is not what I want). Is there a way to accomplish what I'm trying to do? Thanks! - Steinar