Re: [Emacs-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r100117: Run kill-emacs when exiting for display closed or SIGTERM/HUP.

[Jan Djärv]

2010-05-04 18:45, Juri Linkov skrev:

>           * startup.el (fancy-startup-screen, normal-splash-screen):
>           Set default-directory to command-line-default-directory.
>
> Now the question is where `command-line-default-directory'
> should get its value.  It's docstring says:
>
>   (defvar command-line-default-directory nil
>     "Default directory to use for command line arguments.
>   This is normally copied from `default-directory' when Emacs starts.")

Isn't this circular?  Who gets its value first?  And remember, when starting 
from the session manager, no splash screen is shown, so the code that the 
Changelog entry above refers to is never run.

> However, a new command line arg --chdir seems unnecessary.  When the
> user wants `command-line-default-directory' to be another directory,
> then the user can cd to this directory before running Emacs.

The user can not cd if Emacs is started from the session manager.

> If this is necessary for the session management, it's another problem.
> There is a special arg --smid that could be used.

I don't follow.  --smid is strictly for session manager use.  If you mean 
Emacs could save command-line-default-directory when it is terminated by the 
session manager, that is doable.

> > Desktop file isn't loaded.
>
> I think --smid should restore the same desktop file that was saved
> in the previous session.  And also restore the old value of
> `command-line-default-directory'.

And if no session file was used, and there is one in the directory Emacs is 
restarted from?

        Jan D.