Re: Saving State

[Steven Knight <steven@knight.cx>]

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On Wed, 2011-09-07 at 10:02 -0500, 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
> 
> 
> 


Hi,

It sounds like you're looking for the package Workgroup for Windows.  It
provided the features you're looking for. Here are some URLs:

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/WorkgroupsForWindows
https://github.com/tlh/workgroups.el

Thanks,


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Steven Knight <steven@knight.cx>



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