Saving State

Saving State

[Perry Smith]

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

Re: Saving State

[Jai Dayal]

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I think this could be accomplished rather easily with screen (in the
terminal type "which screen" to see if it's installed).

It will change a few key strokes, but nothing major.

Good thing is about screen, is when you're disconnected, you can ssh back in
and re-attach to the screen and everything is there.

http://www.slac.stanford.edu/grp/cd/soft/epics/extensions/iocConsole/screen.1.html

On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Perry Smith <pedzsan@gmail.com> 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
>
>
>

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Re: Saving State

[Jai Dayal]

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I should add that you can run multiple screens, and you easily switch
between them (this is the intended use)

On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Jai Dayal <dayalsoap@gmail.com> wrote:

> I think this could be accomplished rather easily with screen (in the
> terminal type "which screen" to see if it's installed).
>
> It will change a few key strokes, but nothing major.
>
> Good thing is about screen, is when you're disconnected, you can ssh back
> in and re-attach to the screen and everything is there.
>
>
> http://www.slac.stanford.edu/grp/cd/soft/epics/extensions/iocConsole/screen.1.html
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Perry Smith <pedzsan@gmail.com> 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
>>
>>
>>
>

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Re: Saving State

[Steven Knight]

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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,


-- 
Steven Knight <steven@knight.cx>



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Re: Saving State

[Jeffrey Spencer]

Check here. It has the windows.el you are searching for which requires 
revive.el so dl that too.

http://www.gentei.org/~yuuji/software/ 
<http://www.gentei.org/%7Eyuuji/software/>

Cheers,
Jeff

On 09/08/2011 01:02 AM, 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
>
>

Re: Re: Saving State

[Tami]

I also  recommend screen.  We do some home-automation things via computer, so
when things go wrong its handy to just switch to the relevant screen which is
right in the state I need to quickly fix the problem.  

.Tami
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On 2011 September 7 Jai Dayal wrote:
> I think this could be accomplished rather easily with screen (in the
> terminal type "which screen" to see if it's installed).

> It will change a few key strokes, but nothing major.

> Good thing is about screen, is when you're disconnected, you can ssh back in
> and re-attach to the screen and everything is there.

> http://www.slac.stanford.edu/grp/cd/soft/epics/extensions/iocConsole/screen.1.html

> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Perry Smith <pedzsan@gmail.com> 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