From: Rainer M Krug <r.m.krug@gmail.com>
To: John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [OT] How to save and restore window and frame layout and position of windows on monitor - session management
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 10:26:36 +0200 [thread overview]
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On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 9:13 PM, John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>> Rainer M Krug <r.m.krug@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I am already using desktop-save, but I have the feeling that it sometimes
> > does not work.
>
> Just to note (and yes, this is very OT, so I won't say more):
>
Well - I want to use it with org-mode (org file, R session, second org file,
...) so it is not *that* OT, but only slightly.
> WorkgroupsForWindows solves a different problem than desktop-save. In
> fact,
> there are three aspects to the problem, best addressed by three different
> packages:
>
> session.el -- Remembers:
> - the values of global variables (like history rings)
> - where point and mark were in re-opened files
> - gives you a C-x C-/ binding: pop to last change
>
> workgroups.el -- Remembers:
> - one or more window configurations per-frame
> - these can be saved and reloaded
> - does *not* reload files, or rerun apps,
> to populate those windows
> - lets you have a "base" and "active" state for
> each named configuration, making it easy to
> revert back to the base state for each
>
> desktop.el -- Remembers:
> - What files were open, and which apps were running,
> and tries to re-open and re-run them so that Emacs
> looks just like it did when you exited.
>
Thanks for this info - I am using desktop.el, trying to get into
workgroups.el, and have not thought about session.el yet - but I might look
at it.
Thanks for all the info,
Rainer
> I use the first two, and I've used the third, but I find that I prefer
> beginning with a fresh start each time I run Emacs, rather than seeing
> again
> all the hundreds of files I had open yesterday.
>
> John
>
>
>
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-03 9:13 [OT] How to save and restore window and frame layout and position of windows on monitor - session management Rainer M Krug
2011-10-03 15:52 ` brian powell
2011-10-03 16:45 ` brian powell
2011-10-03 17:43 ` Dave Abrahams
2011-10-04 9:22 ` Rainer M Krug
2011-10-04 19:13 ` John Wiegley
2011-10-05 8:26 ` Rainer M Krug [this message]
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