From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Uwe Brauer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: saveplace and friends Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2016 15:11:13 +0000 Message-ID: <871t1you3y.fsf@mat.ucm.es> References: <87eg5ygz27.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <87shuekr04.fsf@gmail.com> <83y446gf2x.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1470755590 10084 195.159.176.226 (9 Aug 2016 15:13:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2016 15:13:10 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 09 17:13:05 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bX8iF-0002QS-PG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Aug 2016 17:13:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36126 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bX8iB-0003ty-JC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Aug 2016 11:12:59 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35631) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bX8gm-00038I-NW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Aug 2016 11:11:33 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bX8gg-0008CT-LE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Aug 2016 11:11:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=57237 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bX8gg-0008Ap-E7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Aug 2016 11:11:26 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bX8ga-0008Ch-1x for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Aug 2016 17:11:20 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:yL2w0O0Cw5oE0LGu/5hqrw2ykAo= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:111096 Archived-At: > The default should work just fine. What Uwe needs is turn on the > mode: > (require 'saveplace) > (save-place-mode 1) > Emacs has long ago switched away from the policy of having a mode turn > on just by loading a file. Nowadays, users need to actually turn on > the mode. Right, it seems that (require 'saveplace) (if (fboundp #'save-place-mode) (save-place-mode +1) (setq-default save-place t)) Does the trick, which is a more complicated version of what you proposed. Sorry for the noise, but the emacswiki needs an upgrade. https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/SavePlace