Re: auto-save-desktop?

[gebser]

This sounds great.  I've always wanted a way to save a session like
you've described.  So I put your code verbatim into my .emacs.  
Question now is: how do I retrieve a session after coming back from,
say, an X crash???

tnx,
ken

At 15:30 (UTC-0400) on Thu, 17 Apr 2003 Steve Wainstead said:

= I'm trying this for now:
= 
= (defun desktop-auto-save ()
=    "Added to auto-save-hook so the desktop is not lost."
=    (desktop-save "~/")
=    (message "Wrote desktop.")
=    )
= 
= (add-hook 'auto-save-hook 'desktop-auto-save t)
= 
= Your code worked fine too... thanks!
= ~swain
= 
= Ehud Karni wrote:
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= > On Tue, 15 Apr 2003 10:24:50 -0400, Steve Wainstead <swain@ampira.com> 
wrote:
= > 
= >>Does anyone know of an extension (or an existing way in Emacs that I 
= >>missed) to automatically save the desktop? I'd like Emacs to do 
= >>desktop-save to a user-specified file periodically; I lost my X session 
= >>yesterday and had several open files.
= > 
= > 
= > I have the following code on my .emacs :
= > 
= > (defun desktop-save-in-home-dir ()
= >   "save desktop on home directory"
= >        (if (buffer-file-name)          ;; do only for real files
= >            (let (find-file-hooks       ;; must - do not loop on this 
function
= >                  kill-buffer-hook)     ;; must - do not loop on this 
function
= >                (desktop-save "~/")
= >                ))
= >        nil)
= > 
= > (add-hook 'find-file-hooks  'desktop-save-in-home-dir t)
= > (add-hook 'kill-buffer-hook 'desktop-save-in-home-dir t)
= > 
= > Ehud.
= > 
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