Re: desktop.el: autosave?

[Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>]

On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, Juri Linkov wrote:

>>> I use in .emacs:
>>>  (defun my-desktop-save ()
>>>    (interactive)
>>>    ;; `desktop-owner' is a new function in Emacs 22.1.50 to check
>>>    ;; for conflicts between two running Emacs instances.
>>>    ;; We don't want automatic saving in the second Emacs process.
>>>    (if (and (fboundp 'desktop-owner) (eq (desktop-owner) (emacs-pid)))
>>>        (desktop-save "~")))
>>
>> Why did you not use desktop-save-in-desktop-dir?
>
> This was enough for .emacs, but for desktop.el a proper variable
> to save the desktop in is surely `desktop-dirname'.  Even though
> `desktop-save-in-desktop-dir' is a method that does this, I think we
> can't use it, because when `desktop-dirname' is nil initially, it asks
> in the minibuffer where to save the desktop (by using `call-interactively'),
> but this is not a good thing to do in a function called by a timer.

> Perhaps it should do nothing when called by a timer and `desktop-dirname'
> is nil.

Seems sensible, but can't you achieve this result by having the timer call 
my-desktop-save non-interactively?

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