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 09:40:15 +0100 Message-ID: <86tvkyk100.fsf@dod.no> References: <86pnvolrgq.fsf@dod.no> <83muqshcoq.fsf@gnu.org> <86ftwjl23x.fsf@dod.no> <86bm77kx0y.fsf@dod.no> <8636sjkpxh.fsf@dod.no> <83lg6afuzc.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1541234355 21406 195.159.176.226 (3 Nov 2018 08:39:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2018 08:39:15 +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 09:39:11 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 1gIrSZ-0005Ty-E9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Nov 2018 09:39:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54753 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gIrUf-00088q-VC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Nov 2018 04:41:21 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:32918) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gIrU3-00088k-Lj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Nov 2018 04:40:44 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gIrTy-0005qK-PU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Nov 2018 04:40:43 -0400 Original-Received: from cadalora.default.sbang.uk0.bigv.io ([2001:41c9:1:424::90]:45682 helo=cadalora.bang.priv.no) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gIrTw-0005a7-LM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Nov 2018 04:40:36 -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 8844FCE1A6 for ; Sat, 3 Nov 2018 08:40:16 +0000 (GMT) In-Reply-To: <83lg6afuzc.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 03 Nov 2018 10:03:51 +0200") 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:118571 Archived-At: >>>>> Eli Zaretskii : >> From: Stefan Monnier >> desktop.el only automatically reads the desktop file if >> desktop-save-mode is enabled and only right after reading the init file. > So perhaps a better solution to the above would be to make some part > of .emacs conditional on some environment variable, and set that > variable in the script? That would have been my fallback option, but as it turned out there was a simpler solution: 1. Remove my old desktop settings from .emacs 2. Add the following to the end of .emacs (setq desktop-path '(".")) 3. Change the commands in the script starting emacs with a desktop, to: cd ~/workspaces emacs --eval "(progn (desktop-read)(desktop-save-mode 1))" >/dev/null 2>&1 & Now emacs started with the script comes up with a restored desktop, but an emacs started in the home directory with a plain emacs & comes up without desktop restore. Thanks again! - Steinar