Re: Saving Emacs sessions

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Petteri Hintsanen <petterih@iki.fi>
> Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2023 01:48:55 +0200
> 
> Last time I used these was many years ago, around Emacs 21 or so.  Back
> then, if I recall correctly, it was enough to do M-x desktop-save RET
> and Emacs would ask for the directory where to save the desktop.  And by
> setting (desktop-save-mode 1) in the init file, Emacs would restore the
> desktop in the startup directory, should one exist.
> 
> With Emacs 28 I assumed the behavior would be the same.  Also the manual
> suggests this (chapter 44):
> 
>   "If you turn on ‘desktop-save-mode’ in your init file, then when Emacs
>    starts, it looks for a saved desktop in the current directory.  (More
>    precisely, it looks in the directories specified by ‘desktop-path’,
>    and uses the first desktop it finds.)  Thus, you can have separate
>    saved desktops in different directories, and the starting directory
>    determines which one Emacs reloads."
> 
> But with the default configuration, .emacs.desktop is saved into
> ~/.emacs.d/, and Emacs does not look for a saved desktop in the current
> directory at startup.

"M-x desktop-save" still asks in which directory to save the desktop,
so you can still have that feature.

> The reason seems to be that the default value for desktop-path is
> ("~/.emacs.d/" "~").  It used to have ".", but that was removed in
> commit e76f0800d2.
> 
> Was there a specific reason for omitting "."?

Yes, see bug#10977.

I have desktop-path customized since long ago to start with ".", as I
use this feature a lot.  Suggest that you do the same.

> [After writing this I found out that the manual has been changed in the
> current git master.  But I think the issue still persists, see e.g.
> misc.texi:2746.]

Fixed, thanks.