From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Startup screen default directory Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 01:42:35 +0200 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87lk5poif0.fsf@jurta.org> References: <87wspce6gj.fsf@jurta.org> <87wspb5d18.fsf@jurta.org> <878x1px4mj.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1202859916 9890 80.91.229.12 (12 Feb 2008 23:45:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 23:45:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bob@rattlesnake.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 13 00:45:39 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JP4og-0005Ww-7c for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:45:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JP4oC-0001my-PG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:45:04 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JP4nW-0001MG-7U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:44:22 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JP4nU-0001Lv-Qk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:44:21 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JP4nU-0001Ls-L3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:44:20 -0500 Original-Received: from relay01.kiev.sovam.com ([62.64.120.200]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JP4nU-0005LP-1O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:44:20 -0500 Original-Received: from [83.170.232.243] (helo=smtp.svitonline.com) by relay01.kiev.sovam.com with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JP4nP-000AHZ-NX; Wed, 13 Feb 2008 01:44:18 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:31:02 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-Scanner-Signature: 1e897a521fdb5eac39b1f944f187ca57 X-DrWeb-checked: yes X-SpamTest-Envelope-From: juri@jurta.org X-SpamTest-Group-ID: 00000000 X-SpamTest-Header: Not Detected X-SpamTest-Info: Profiles 2232 [Feb 12 2008] X-SpamTest-Info: helo_type=3 X-SpamTest-Info: {HEADERS: header Content-Type found without required header Content-Transfer-Encoding} X-SpamTest-Method: none X-SpamTest-Rate: 11 X-SpamTest-Status: Not detected X-SpamTest-Status-Extended: not_detected X-SpamTest-Version: SMTP-Filter Version 3.0.0 [0255], KAS30/Release X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 4.8-5.1 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:88917 Archived-At: >>> In my major instance of GNU Emacs, I load over 20 files from a saved >>> desktop, but my `desktop-save-mode' variable is nil because I want >>> always to load the same files, but often look at others that I do not >>> necessarily want the next time I start Emacs. >>> >>> On the other hand, in a root owned instance, in a `when' expression, I >>> evoke >>> >>> (desktop-save-mode 1) >>> (desktop-read "/root") >>> >>> The root owned instance says: >>> >>> desktop-save-mode is a variable defined in `desktop.el'. >>> Its value is t > >> A more relevant variable that determines if the desktop was really >> loaded and that it created some buffers is `desktop-buffer-ok-count'. > >> Currently it is locally bound in `desktop-read' but could be changed >> to be global. So if `desktop-buffer-ok-count' > 0 then don't show >> the startup screen. > > Couldn't we do it the other way around: have desktop.el change > inhibit-startup-screen or something like that? > startup.el has no business looking at desktop's internal variables. Yes, and there even exists already a proper place in desktop.el that loads the desktop on startup. Fixed in CVS and Emacs 22. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/