From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gary Wessle Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: remembering a layout after reboot Date: 03 Mar 2007 04:33:55 +1100 Organization: iPrimus Customer - reports relating to abuse should be sent to abuse@iprimus.com.au Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1172860876 16129 80.91.229.12 (2 Mar 2007 18:41:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 18:41:16 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 02 19:41:09 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HNCgn-0006Q6-9a for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Mar 2007 19:41:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HNCgm-0002SK-Rc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Mar 2007 13:41:08 -0500 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 58.178.40.79 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 127.0.0.1 Original-Lines: 38 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.134.67.67 Original-X-Trace: 1172856826 un-2park-reader-01.sydney.pipenetworks.com.au 1148 203.134.67.67:2506 Original-X-Complaints-To: Abuse, including message IDs to abuse@pipenetworks.com Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!news.glorb.com!quokka.wn.com.au!figjam.pipenetworks.com!token.pipenetworks.com!218.100.2.59.MISMATCH!not-for-mail Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:145997 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:41601 Archived-At: Matthew Flaschen writes: > Gary Wessle wrote: > > Matthew Flaschen writes: > > > >> Gary Wessle wrote: > >>> Hi > >>> > >>> > >>> I find my self visiting few files and setting up the frame / windows > >>> in such a preferred way. > >>> is there a way to remember this layout so next time I reboot or > >>> restart emacs, I can just restore them? > >> Try desktop-save and desktop-read. > >> > >> Setup everything the way you want then execute desktop-save. Choose > >> your home directory. > >> > >> Then, when you start emacs, you can execute desktop-read . Or you can > >> put this in your ~/.emacs file. > >> > > > > thanks, > > I don't have desktop-save, I have desktop-read though. > > Sorry. Add: > > ; Desktop functions > (require 'desktop) > > to your ~/.emacs . Then restart emacs and try again. > I did, it would save it fine, but when calling desktop-read, it only visited one of the files and opened only one frame among many I had at the time of desktop-save. hummm