Re: Use emacs.desktop when starting emacs from a particular directory

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>
> Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2018 16:58:45 +0100
> 
> I would like emacs to use the ~/workspaces/.emacs.desktop when started
> in a particular manner by a script, and not use a desktop file otherwise
> (when SSH'ing in I would like to restore my development session as much
> as possible).
> 
> The way I've tried to accomplish it is by starting emacs with the
> following commands:
>  cd ~/workspaces
>  emacs --eval "(progn (setq desktop-path (expand-file-name \"~/workspaces\")) 
> (desktop-save-mode 1))" >/dev/null 2>&1 &

AFAIK, the above is a mistake: desktop-path should be a list of
strings, not a single string.  (I use this feature since time
immemoriam, and it works for me every time.)

P.S. Any variable whose name ends in "-path" signals that it's a list
of directory names.