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From: ken <gebser@mousecar.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs.desktop non-functional
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 17:05:59 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56EB1C37.3030308@mousecar.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83fuvpai3i.fsf@gnu.org>

On 03/16/2016 11:39 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: ken <gebser@mousecar.com>
>> Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2016 21:38:41 -0400
>>
>> How do I get emacs to save sessions?  In version 22.1.1 it worked fine,
>> would save which buffers had been opened and would load them all back
>> again, even if the system went out suddenly due to a power outage.  In
>> version 24.3.1 this functionality is gone, even if I do a graceful
>> shutdown.
>
> No, it still works.
>
> I'm guessing it's something in your .emacs.  Please show how do you
> turn the feature on there.
>

in ~/.emacs:

(desktop-save-mode 1)

I also checked its value once emacs is newly running and it says:

desktop-save-mode's value is t

In the *Customization Option...* it says:

Desktop Save Mode: Toggle  on (non-nil)
     State : SAVED and set.

$ uname -vrspio
Linux 3.10.0-327.10.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Feb 16 17:03:50 UTC 2016 
x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux





  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-17 21:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-17  1:38 emacs.desktop non-functional ken
2016-03-17  3:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-17 21:05   ` ken [this message]
2016-03-18  8:01     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-18 19:21       ` ken
2016-03-18 20:20         ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-19  1:35           ` ken
2016-03-19  8:14             ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-20 22:35             ` Robert Thorpe

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