From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Spencer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Saving State Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2011 22:16:24 +1000 Message-ID: <4E68B218.5010702@gmail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1315484178 15041 80.91.229.12 (8 Sep 2011 12:16:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 12:16:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs List To: Perry Smith Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 08 14:16:13 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R1dWe-0004n8-QR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Sep 2011 14:16:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38327 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R1dWe-0007Ow-7Z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Sep 2011 08:16:12 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:42918) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R1dWW-0007OS-KI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Sep 2011 08:16:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R1dWS-0001ME-3C for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Sep 2011 08:16:04 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-gw0-f48.google.com ([74.125.83.48]:51957) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R1dWS-0001M8-0j for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Sep 2011 08:16:00 -0400 Original-Received: by gwj22 with SMTP id 22so684575gwj.35 for ; Thu, 08 Sep 2011 05:15:59 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=nsVx3Itf7MshlC1YAYFSIGk/7tQpPOZKEYaVazBqJ4c=; b=Y94Mi/WMptZPHZzR+2IcGERn7SMJqLx+/gdZYLFRisSBrLP5HGsI+bEWcGgiKdHORW 3bfpHhAbj9ZeCrI3WH4I5i2wBsuzTGFy+rEQUBcj21nVeMkLOhMUKxmSNSPJJoVRUG23 7JAE7kPU8X/SUyU4/5w+zRJL01Pn/2UKc9G9I= Original-Received: by 10.150.67.20 with SMTP id p20mr735480yba.226.1315484158342; Thu, 08 Sep 2011 05:15:58 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [128.250.61.144] ([128.250.61.144]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id m3sm344048ybc.7.2011.09.08.05.15.56 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 08 Sep 2011 05:15:57 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110628 Thunderbird/5.0 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 74.125.83.48 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:82191 Archived-At: 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/ 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 > >