Re: Use emacs.desktop when starting emacs from a particular directory

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>
> Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2018 20:18:42 +0100
> 
> >>>>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>:
> 
> Thanks!  I've changed the commands starting emacs to:
>  cd ~/workspaces
>  emacs --eval "(progn (progn (push (expand-file-name \"~/workspaces\") 
> desktop-path) (desktop-save-mode 1)) (desktop-save-mode 1))" >/dev/null 2>&1 &
> 
> Now desktop-path has the following value after startup:
> ("/home/sb/workspaces" "~/.emacs.d/" "~")
> Original value was 
> ("~/.emacs.d/" "~")
> 
> However, emacs still saves and restores state from the
> ~/.emacs.d/.emacs.desktop file.

First, why do you use 'push' instead of 'setq'?  Don't you want to
replace desktop-path for this invocation?

Second, is there actually an .emacs.desktop file in the ~/workspaces
directory?

Here's what I do for a long time in my .emacs:

  (setq desktop-path '("." ".." "../.." "../../.."))
  (desktop-save-mode 1)

Then starting Emacs in a directory with a .emacs.desktop file reads
that desktop file.  So this feature works, it's just that something in
your case prevents it from working for you.  Perhaps some debugging is
in order.