GNU bug report logs - #1687
Emacs.app -- Warning: desktop file appears to be in use by PID 537.

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Packages: ns, emacs;

Reported by: "Gilbert Harman" <harman <at> princeton.edu>

Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 02:20:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Adrian Robert <adrian.b.robert <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #47 received at 1687 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>
To: "Relson, David" <david.relson <at> orion-sys.com>
Cc: 1687 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#1687: Bug 1687
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:54:54 +0100

> With two lines in .emacs, i.e.
>
> (desktop-load-default)
> (desktop-save-mode 1)

Why do you use `desktop-load-default'? Have you tried just with
`desktop-save-mode'?

> I used to
> be able to open multiple copies of emacs without warnings.

Yes. Opening multiple copies was allowed before, but it leads to the
last Emacs to exit clobbering the desktop file of the previous
instances. You can set `desktop-load-locked-desktop' to t and Emacs
won't ask you when loading the desktop (though it will still ask
before overwriting the previous instance's desktop while exiting).

    Juanma
This bug report was last modified 16 years and 170 days ago.

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