[win7] "can't find .emacs.buffers" error

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[win7] "can't find .emacs.buffers" error

soterite opened this issue 8 years ago · comments

I've had this problem on windows 7. The path to the file was garbled with '//', which clearly prevented .emacs.buffers from loading. This simple fix did the trick:

(defun desktop+--buffers-file ()
(concat desktop-dirname ".emacs-buffers"))

Is it a bug in your original desktop+--buffers-file?

François Févotte · Answer 1 · Wed Mar 30 2016 21:19:54 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Yes, it's probably a bug. I wasn't sure that desktop-dirname would always end with a path separator, so I added a "/" just in case. This (unnecessary) precaution is not a problem with linux, but of course it's causing you problems on windows.

I implemented your solution in the last commit, so that the bug should now be fixed.
Please don't hesitate to test and tell me if it works.

soterite · Answer 2 · Thu Mar 31 2016 18:58:09 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Now It works like a charm.

btw... Your code keeps me more organized and saves a heck of a lot of my time each and every day. Many, many thanks indeed for your work :)

François Févotte · Answer 3 · Thu Mar 31 2016 19:44:25 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Thanks for your feedback and the time you took to diagnose the problem!

François Févotte · Answer 4 · Sun Jan 08 2017 05:40:53 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

This bug fix is probably the cause for issue #14.