Re: A few questions about desktop.el

[Juanma Barranquero]

On 5/2/06, Stuart D. Herring <address@hidden> wrote:

> It seems to me that
> (add-hook 'desktop-not-loaded-hook (lambda () (setq desktop-save nil)))
> ...would be cumbersome (especially for non-Lispy users).

You could always do M-x customize-variable desktop-not-loaded-hook,
couldn't you?

> Is there any
> other use for such a hook (maybe `kill-emacs'? ;)

Certainly, running an external app (likely gnuclient) to bring the
other Emacs instance to focus and then killing the current one would
be my first use, yes.

> Or instead to ask,
> when the user chooses to honor a lock, whether to then disable Desktop?

I hate being asked (by a program :-) about things that could be automated.

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