From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tami Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Re: Saving State Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 14:04:11 -0500 Message-ID: <20073.4523.814094.635848@rocky.wb5aoh.ampr.org> References: Reply-To: tami@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1315633142 29444 80.91.229.12 (10 Sep 2011 05:39:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 05:39:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: pedzsan@gmail.com, Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 10 07:38:58 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R2GHH-0004vU-DW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Sep 2011 07:38:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34461 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R2GHG-0003KW-UR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Sep 2011 01:38:54 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:50976) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R1vzs-00015Z-FR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Sep 2011 03:59:37 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R1vzr-0000Lc-0K for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Sep 2011 03:59:36 -0400 Original-Received: from adsl-64-149-184-62.dsl.austtx.sbcglobal.net ([64.149.184.62]:51554 helo=eric.tensleep.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R1vzq-0000LS-PC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Sep 2011 03:59:34 -0400 Original-Received: from rocky.wb5aoh.ampr.org (pppclient.eric.tensleep.com [172.22.1.2]) by eric.tensleep.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9ED037E4F; Fri, 9 Sep 2011 01:01:49 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by rocky.wb5aoh.ampr.org (Postfix on SuSE Linux 8.0 (i386), from userid 9049) id F22912FC94; Thu, 8 Sep 2011 14:04:11 -0500 (CDT) In-Reply-To: Jai Dayal's message of Wednesday, 7 September 2011 11:40:40 -0400 X-Mailer: VM 7.04 under Emacs 21.1.1 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-Received-From: 64.149.184.62 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 01:38:48 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:82201 Archived-At: I also recommend screen. We do some home-automation things via computer, so when things go wrong its handy to just switch to the relevant screen which is right in the state I need to quickly fix the problem. .Tami .signature: syntax error at line 1: `(' unexpected On 2011 September 7 Jai Dayal wrote: > I think this could be accomplished rather easily with screen (in the > terminal type "which screen" to see if it's installed). > It will change a few key strokes, but nothing major. > Good thing is about screen, is when you're disconnected, you can ssh back in > and re-attach to the screen and everything is there. > http://www.slac.stanford.edu/grp/cd/soft/epics/extensions/iocConsole/screen.1.html > On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Perry Smith wrote: > > I do customer support and I shift from one problem to another problem and > > then back to the first problem. > > Is it possible to save the current state of emacs which includes the > > buffers in particular and maybe the "register" values (when I do > > point-to-register) to a file. Then clear the state, work on a new problem, > > save the new state at that time. Then be able to go back and restore the > > first state? > > Utopia would each of these states to be saved in its own individual file. > > I've been told of a packaged named "windows" that does this but I can't > > find it because the name gets too many hits. > > Thank you, > > pedz