From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Saving window config using desktop globals Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 01:20:09 +0100 Message-ID: <87vb81hoee.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <20151213193050.GA3346@mail.akwebsoft.com> <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> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1450052460 3944 80.91.229.3 (14 Dec 2015 00:21:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 00:21:00 +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 Dec 14 01:20:51 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 1a8Gsi-0005MK-2X for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Dec 2015 01:20:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57088 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a8Gsh-0003Mi-Bd for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 13 Dec 2015 19:20:47 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57298) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a8GsT-0003MP-NL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Dec 2015 19:20:34 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a8GsP-0004t9-Ij for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Dec 2015 19:20:33 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:35111) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a8GsP-0004st-CV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Dec 2015 19:20:29 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1a8GsJ-0004Y9-Qj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Dec 2015 01:20:23 +0100 Original-Received: from nl106-137-244.student.uu.se ([130.243.137.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 14 Dec 2015 01:20:23 +0100 Original-Received: from embe8573 by nl106-137-244.student.uu.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 14 Dec 2015 01:20:23 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: nl106-137-244.student.uu.se Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:nc32dnYpeZXzWuXCsjyNAurQurc= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:108397 Archived-At: Tim Johnson writes: >> "Desktop file" = ordinary file? > > No -- "Desktop file" = .emacs.desktop "Desktop will load, at startup, the buffers you were editing when you last quit Emacs." [1] Oh no, this is what I said all along...! It is much better to not care about state but to have a "total state" where everything is reachable from everywhere, instantly! Are people that afraid to get lost? Good luck anyway. [1] http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs?action=browse;oldid=DeskTop;id=Desktop -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573