From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Jude DaShiell Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: saveplace and friends Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2016 14:59:55 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: <87eg5ygz27.fsf@mat.ucm.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1470769238 13837 195.159.176.226 (9 Aug 2016 19:00:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2016 19:00:38 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Alpine 2.20 (NEB 67 2015-01-07) To: Uwe Brauer , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 09 21:00:34 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 1bXCGQ-0003Qp-GT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Aug 2016 21:00:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37502 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bXCGN-00063v-Ao for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Aug 2016 15:00:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35615) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bXCFv-00062J-FS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Aug 2016 15:00:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bXCFr-000241-7c for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Aug 2016 15:00:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mailbackend.panix.com ([166.84.1.89]:50653) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bXCFr-00023G-1e for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Aug 2016 14:59:59 -0400 Original-Received: from panix1.panix.com (panix1.panix.com [166.84.1.1]) by mailbackend.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FD3717820; Tue, 9 Aug 2016 14:59:56 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by panix1.panix.com (Postfix, from userid 20712) id 475D714B9A; Tue, 9 Aug 2016 14:59:56 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by panix1.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4396C14B98; Tue, 9 Aug 2016 14:59:56 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87eg5ygz27.fsf@mat.ucm.es> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux (Android) X-Received-From: 166.84.1.89 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:111101 Archived-At: save-place hasn't worked in 24.5 either. I know I used that on earlier version of emacs and it saves your place in the file and when you open the file again you get put back on the save-place location. On Tue, 9 Aug 2016, Uwe Brauer wrote: > Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2016 03:51:28 > From: Uwe Brauer > To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > Subject: saveplace and friends > > Hi > > I used such a functionality a long time ago and now again I think it > would come in handy: > > Saveplace (or friends). > > > That is when I exit emacs I want it to save the > place of the cursor of the buffers which where open at that moment. > > I thought that recentfiles provides such a functionality but it does not > at least not for GNU emacs 25.1.5. > > I tried out > > (require 'saveplace) > (setq-default save-place t) > > But it did not work neither. > > Anybody has a different suggestion? > > thanks > > Uwe Brauer > > > --