Re: desktop mode, periodic save

[Xah <xahlee@gmail.com>]

i'm using desktop.el, with the intention so that in case of crashing
(emacs or OS), i can still have emacs open files i have left open when
crashed.

However, desktop mode by default doesn't save periodically, so that
after a crash, i lost the info of opened files. (i think this defeats
the main purpose of desktop mode)

So i added a desktop-save to find-file-hook. Like this:

(desktop-save-mode 1)
(add-hook 'find-file-hook (lambda () (desktop-save "~/")))

But the problem with this is that, when i launch emacs (no crash
involved), it will ask me to override the desktop file each time it
opens a file (due to previous desktop save)

I think the solution is to add the hook only when the initialization
is complete. How can i do that?

  Xah
  xah@xahlee.org
∑ http://xahlee.org/

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On Feb 1, 8:07 am, Xah Lee <x...@xahlee.org> wrote:
> I usedesktopmode, so that in case of crashing (emacs or OS), i can
> know which files i was working on or needs to work on.
>
> However, by default, thedesktopmode doesn't seems to save
> periodically, so that when OS crash, i lost the info about which files
> that was open or needs to work on.
>
> I'm doing this as a solution:
>
> (desktop-save-mode 1)
>
> (add-hook 'find-file-hook (lambda () (desktop-save "~/")))
>
> Is there a variable that i should use instead?
>
> thx.
>
>   Xah
>   x...@xahlee.org
> ∑http://xahlee.org/
>
> ☄