From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Use emacs.desktop when starting emacs from a particular directory Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2018 23:15:59 -0400 Message-ID: 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 1541214879 29036 195.159.176.226 (3 Nov 2018 03:14:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2018 03:14:39 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) 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 04:14:35 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 1gImOP-0007SO-NO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Nov 2018 04:14:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54073 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gImQW-0006vM-1N for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Nov 2018 23:16:44 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59464) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gImQ1-0006vH-Py for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Nov 2018 23:16:14 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gImPy-0001o2-Hv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Nov 2018 23:16:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=44995 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gImPx-0001lu-NK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Nov 2018 23:16:10 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gImNo-0006iU-6T for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Nov 2018 04:13:56 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 12 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:yiCmvL2qgwbMC0DCRxtQ7WhAWaI= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 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:118568 Archived-At: > 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`). BTW, why to you call (desktop-save-mode 1) twice? Stefan