From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: trikl@online.de, 10977@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#10977: detail from .xession-errors concerning .desktop extension of ~./emacs.desktop
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 14:14:31 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvr4wxk7zk.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1zkblkbxv.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (Glenn Morris's message of "Mon, 12 Mar 2012 12:42:52 -0400")
>>>> I think the necessary change would be to make desktop-read set
>>>> desktop-dirname to user-emacs-directory if no existing desktop is found
>>>> in any of those three locations (and no DIRNAME arg was specified).
>> Agreed.
>>> Only in the case where "." = "~", I should have said.
>> Disagreed. I would agree to special case the "."="~" in the sense of
>> ignoring "." from desktop-path when "." is "~" (so that
>> user-emacs-directory takes precedence over ~), but special casing it
>> when setting desktop-dirname doesn't seem to bring us anything.
> echo '(desktop-save-mode 1)' >| ~/.emacs
> emacs
> C-h v desktop-dirname
> You'll find it set to the value of PWD.
Yes, and that should be user-emacs-directory instead.
> This controls where the desktop gets saved on exit. I'm saying that
> when you start in HOME, Emacs should prefer to save in
> user-emacs-directory rather than PWD;
We agree on this case.
> but not when you start in /some/other/place
Here I disagree. If a desktop file is found somewhere up from
/some/other/place, then we should use it, but otherwise desktop-dirname
should be set to user-emacs-directory.
> (you could never have more than one desktop then; I make use of
> multiple desktops).
You could still have them. The user would simply have to explicitly
save it in /some/other/place.
> Another option:
> Save all desktops to ~/.emacs.d/desktops/; either with the directory
> name encoded in the name of the desktop file, or have an index file that
> maps starting directories to desktop files. That would also allow for
> named desktops (desktop-project1, desktop-project2, etc).
That'd be OK as well.
> PS I've also changed my mind and think that .desktop.el would be a
> better name than .emacs.desktop. Would need compat code to load
> .emacs.desktop if it exists, but prefer saving to .desktop.el.
FWIW, I think that ".el" should be reserved for files containing Elisp
code, rather than any Elisp data; IOW it should be intended for `load'
rather than for `read'. Not sure what to use for Elisp data,
tho... maybe ".eld"?
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-12 18:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-09 9:55 bug#10977: 24.0.94; filename "emacs.desktop" collides with kde xy*.desktop logic Thomas Rikl
2012-03-09 10:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-03-09 18:21 ` Glenn Morris
2012-03-09 20:59 ` bug#10977: detail from .xession-errors concerning .desktop extension of ~./emacs.desktop Th. Rikl
2012-03-09 21:33 ` Glenn Morris
2012-03-10 7:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-03-10 14:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-03-10 19:16 ` Thomas Rikl
2012-03-10 19:25 ` Glenn Morris
2012-03-10 19:28 ` Glenn Morris
2012-03-11 1:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-03-12 16:42 ` Glenn Morris
2012-03-12 18:14 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2012-03-12 18:49 ` Glenn Morris
2012-03-12 19:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-03-12 9:34 ` Chong Yidong
2012-03-12 12:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-03-12 13:58 ` bug#10977: detail from .xession-errors concerning .desktopextension " Drew Adams
2012-06-21 7:27 ` bug#10977: 24.0.94; filename "emacs.desktop" collides with kde xy*.desktop logic Chong Yidong
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