[Emacs-bug-tracker] bug#1226: closed (Desktop holds second Emacs session hostage; C-x C-c doesn't work properly.)

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C-c doesn't work properly.
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> Desktop holds second Emacs session hostage;	C-x C-c doesn't work properly.
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> Wed, 22 Oct 2008 10:07:13 +0000
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> (i) With desktop enabled, start emacs.
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> (ii) Start a second emacs session.
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> Emacs2 detects Emacs1 and the danger of contention over .emacs.desktop.
> It prompts thusly:
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>     "Warning: desktop file appears to be in use by PID 3616.
>      Using it may cause conflicts.  Use it anyway? (y or n)"
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> (iii) Type n.
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> (iv) Attempt C-c C-x.
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> Emacs2 decides, because desktop is "enabled", that it wants to save a
> desktop file, and prompts:
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>     "Directory for desktop file: ~/"
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> 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.
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> This is a bug.
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> Even worse, accepting the prompt's default directory, ~/, might
> overwrite the real .emacs.desktop.
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> Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
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> Re: bug#1226: Desktop holds second Emacs session hostage; C-x C-c	doesn't work properly.
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> Sat, 9 Jul 2011 01:18:03 +0200
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> On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 22:48, Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden> wrote:
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> > That's perfect!  Thanks.
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> I'm closing this one, then.
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> Thanks,
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>     Juanma
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