From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim Johnson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: [closed]Re: Saving window config using desktop globals Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 15:09:30 -0900 Message-ID: <20151215000930.GM3346@mail.akwebsoft.com> References: <87io42hsoi.fsf@debian.uxu> <87d1uahr52.fsf@debian.uxu> <878u4yhqso.fsf@debian.uxu> <20151213233350.GD3346@mail.akwebsoft.com> <87zixdhq74.fsf@debian.uxu> <20151213234826.GE3346@mail.akwebsoft.com> <87vb81hoee.fsf@debian.uxu> <20151214004738.GF3346@mail.akwebsoft.com> <87h9jlhmnt.fsf@debian.uxu> <20151214012816.GG3346@mail.akwebsoft.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1450138202 16652 80.91.229.3 (15 Dec 2015 00:10:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 00:10:02 +0000 (UTC) To: Emacs Help Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 15 01:09:53 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1a8dBg-0001Ej-1r for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Dec 2015 01:09:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34421 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a8dBf-0000UN-6T for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Dec 2015 19:09:51 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40024) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a8dBT-0000UE-89 for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Dec 2015 19:09:40 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a8dBO-0004Fz-Fm for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Dec 2015 19:09:39 -0500 Original-Received: from tjohnson.mtaonline.net ([64.4.232.191]:47755) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a8dBO-0004DK-7e for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Dec 2015 19:09:34 -0500 Original-Received: by linus.johnson.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2B0212000BD; Mon, 14 Dec 2015 15:09:30 -0900 (AKST) Mail-Followup-To: Emacs Help Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20151214012816.GG3346@mail.akwebsoft.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 64.4.232.191 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:108405 Archived-At: * Tim Johnson [151213 16:33]: > > BTW: I've settled on emacs as an alternative to vim, which I've > used for projects for many years. Vim restores window layouts > quite easily. Vim uses TABS, but I think the usage of registers > for window layouts (including saving and retrieving them) could > trump the use of tabs and in the long run make things easier to > manage. As the OP, I'm calling this closed (not solved). I kind of blew the subject line. The inquiry evolved to the possibility of saving window configs in a register in 'register-alist as stored in a .desktop file. From further research, it appears to not be possible, as the window configs are in C code, not elisp. I'm sure that there are other solutions, which I'll pursue later, but it would be great if that feature were added. That way the programmer could preserve/serialize several different window layouts for a large coding project. My thanks to Immanuel for his input. I will be temporarily suspending this email address soon, as I will be traveling. Should there be any more responses, I can find them in the archives. -- Tim http://www.akwebsoft.com, http://www.tj49.com