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

[Steinar Bang]

>>>>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>:

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

Habit I guess... I always treat paths that way: add to the start and
keep the existing value.

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

Yes.

> 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.

Right.  Thanks!  Stefan suggested checking my config to see if I had
some (forgotten) desktop setting there.