Re: auto-save-desktop?

[Steve Wainstead]

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:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
>
> 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.
>
>
> - -- 
>  Ehud Karni           Tel: +972-3-7966-561  /"\
>  Mivtach - Simon      Fax: +972-3-7966-667  \ /  ASCII Ribbon Campaign
>  Insurance agencies   (USA) voice mail and   X   Against   HTML   Mail
>  http://www.mvs.co.il  FAX:  1-815-5509341  / \
>  mailto:ehud@unix.mvs.co.il                  Better  Safe  Than  Sorry
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> Comment: use http://www.keyserver.net/ to get my key (and others)
>
> iD8DBQE+nCwtLFvTvpjqOY0RAtkHAJ485I4poJObLlrvsv05NDqTiptGEACfYjcp
> PtfBs2pChwPdIa0Ac0hJBN0=
> =aMF1
> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----