From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to save Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2011 09:24:32 +0800 Message-ID: <87lirshghb.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <9E5376E1-BA0E-4E4C-8FD0-DFE7BECC6DB2@math.ethz.ch> <87wrbdw9rm.wl%lists@groll.co.za> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1320629105 4632 80.91.229.12 (7 Nov 2011 01:25:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 01:25:05 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 07 02:25:01 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 1RNDxM-0007w6-Nv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Nov 2011 02:25:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50548 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RNDxM-0005yK-3U for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Nov 2011 20:25:00 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:49102) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RNDxH-0005y2-A1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Nov 2011 20:24:56 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RNDxF-0007mc-LW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Nov 2011 20:24:55 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:36144) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RNDxF-0007mN-GS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Nov 2011 20:24:53 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RNDxE-0007ug-46 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Nov 2011 02:24:52 +0100 Original-Received: from 125.33.1.248 ([125.33.1.248]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 07 Nov 2011 02:24:52 +0100 Original-Received: from eric by 125.33.1.248 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 07 Nov 2011 02:24:52 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 28 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 125.33.1.248 User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.90 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Zz1h8pgoGgRLdvzDEwyrdNPiXKc= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 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:82778 Archived-At: On Sun, Nov 06 2011, Marius Hofert wrote: > Thanks, Jonathan. > > I was hoping for a less intrusive solution. I also saw save-place constructions but that also seemed quite heavy. > I'm still wondering why it does not work with just desktop-save-mode, > it specificallys says on > http://www.gnu.org/s/libtool/manual/emacs/Saving-Emacs-Sessions.html > that the buffers, their file names, major modes, buffer positions,.. > are saved. Hmm... > > Cheers, > > Marius For more frame-/window-specific solutions see http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CategoryWindows, specifically the "Switching Window Configurations" section. I use Workgroups (http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/WorkgroupsForWindows) and like it quite a bit: it saves frame/window/buffer configurations, but doesn't save all my open files unless I ask it to. For me, that's just the right amount of persistence. Eric -- GNU Emacs 24.0.90.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.4) of 2011-10-06 on pellet