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 09:01:39 +0100 Message-ID: <86y3aak2sc.fsf@dod.no> References: <86pnvolrgq.fsf@dod.no> <83muqshcoq.fsf@gnu.org> <86ftwjl23x.fsf@dod.no> <86bm77kx0y.fsf@dod.no> <8636sjkpxh.fsf@dod.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1541232027 25530 195.159.176.226 (3 Nov 2018 08:00:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2018 08:00:27 +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 09:00:23 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 1gIqqy-0006ML-3u for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Nov 2018 09:00:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54666 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gIqsz-0006X1-A4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Nov 2018 04:02:25 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46388) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gIqsV-0006Wp-Dh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Nov 2018 04:01:56 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gIqsP-0004AT-Pv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Nov 2018 04:01:53 -0400 Original-Received: from cadalora.default.sbang.uk0.bigv.io ([2001:41c9:1:424::90]:45514 helo=cadalora.bang.priv.no) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gIqsN-00040D-11 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Nov 2018 04:01:48 -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 7EED3CE1A7 for ; Sat, 3 Nov 2018 08:01:40 +0000 (GMT) In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Fri, 02 Nov 2018 23:15:59 -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:118569 Archived-At: >>>>> Stefan Monnier : >> emacs --eval "(progn (progn (setq desktop-path (list (expand-file-name \"~/workspaces\"))) (desktop-save-mode 1)) (desktop-save-mode 1))" >/dev/null 2>&1 & > desktop.el only automatically reads the desktop file if > desktop-save-mode is enabled and only right after reading the init > file. So in the example above, desktop-save-mode is enabled too late > but this to trigger, hence you'd need to explicitly ask desktop to > read the file (by calling `desktop-read`). Hm... what I actually want is to use a desktop file if it is in the directory I'm starting in, but not otherwise. I guess a subset of Eli's value would be the right thing of desktop-path would be the right thing. Should I move the setting back into .emacs instead of the --eval, and only call (desktop-save-mode 1) if the file is present? > BTW, why to you call (desktop-save-mode 1) twice? Copy-paste error. Thanks for catching it!