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bug#1226: Desktop holds second Emacs session hostage; C-x C-c doesn't wo
From: |
Alan Mackenzie |
Subject: |
bug#1226: Desktop holds second Emacs session hostage; C-x C-c doesn't work properly. |
Date: |
Wed, 22 Oct 2008 12:48:23 +0000 |
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Mutt/1.5.9i |
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 12:12:28PM +0100, Lawrence Mitchell wrote:
> Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> > (i) With desktop enabled, start emacs.
> > (ii) Start a second emacs session.
[ .... ]
> > Emacs2 decides, because desktop is "enabled", that it wants to save a
> > desktop file, and prompts:
> > "Directory for desktop file: ~/"
> > At this point, C-g aborts the "end Emacs" command. One now has the
> > unpleasant choice of killing Emacs2 from the (operating system) console
> > or typing in some random directory to dump the empty .emacs.desktop to.
> > This is a bug.
> I cannot reproduce with the following sequence to enable desktop:
> ;; start an emacs that creates a desktop file and quit
> $ emacs -Q --eval '(progn (setq desktop-path (list "/tmp/"))
> (desktop-save-mode 1) (desktop-read) (dired "/tmp/")
> (save-buffers-kill-emacs))'
> ;; now start an emacs to read the desktop file (acquiring a lock)
> $ emacs -Q --eval '(progn (setq desktop-path (list "/tmp/"))
> (desktop-save-mode 1) (desktop-read))' &
> ;; start a second emacs
> $ emacs -Q --eval '(progn (setq desktop-path (list "/tmp/"))
> (desktop-save-mode 1) (desktop-read))'
> ;; This one prompts
> Warning: desktop file appears to be in use by PID XXXXX.
> Using it may cause conflicts. Use it anyway? (y or n)
> ;; I answer "n", the desktop file is not loaded.
> ;; Now I do save-buffers-kill-emacs and am asked:
> Save desktop? (y or n)
> ;; I hit "n", the desktop is not saved and Emacs quits as
> expected.
> How have you enabled desktop in your emacs session to produce
> this problem?
Sorry, I should have said this. With a .emacs containing exactly one
line:
(desktop-save-mode 1)
and with no existing .emacs.desktop, I started Emacs, visited two files,
did M-x desktop-save, and exited Emacs.
Then I started, successively, two Emacs sessions like this:
/path/to/emacs --no-site-file
, where the emacs was a CVS version from last night. I tried this (i) on
two Linux tty's; (ii) From an X-Windows (GNOME) terminal,
> Lawrence Mitchell <wence@gmx.li>
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).