Re: desktop.el: autosave?

[Juri Linkov]

>> I use in .emacs:
>>  (defun my-desktop-save ()
>>    (interactive)
>>    ;; `desktop-owner' is a new function in Emacs 22.1.50 to check
>>    ;; for conflicts between two running Emacs instances.
>>    ;; We don't want automatic saving in the second Emacs process.
>>    (if (and (fboundp 'desktop-owner) (eq (desktop-owner) (emacs-pid)))
>>        (desktop-save "~")))
>
> Why did you not use desktop-save-in-desktop-dir?

This was enough for .emacs, but for desktop.el a proper variable
to save the desktop in is surely `desktop-dirname'.  Even though
`desktop-save-in-desktop-dir' is a method that does this, I think we
can't use it, because when `desktop-dirname' is nil initially, it asks
in the minibuffer where to save the desktop (by using `call-interactively'),
but this is not a good thing to do in a function called by a timer.
Perhaps it should do nothing when called by a timer and `desktop-dirname'
is nil.

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Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/