From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to dump Emacs and use as application snapshot? Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2020 00:14:44 +0300 Organization: GNU.Support Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="24853"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/+ (1036f0e) (2020-10-18) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 27 22:15:17 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kXWJG-0006KX-VH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2020 22:15:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60152 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kXWJG-0006xX-0p for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2020 17:15:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:44618) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kXWIs-0006xO-Ff for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2020 17:14:50 -0400 Original-Received: from static.rcdrun.com ([95.85.24.50]:43487) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kXWIr-0002zq-0g for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2020 17:14:50 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:197.157.0.60]) (AUTH: PLAIN admin, TLS: TLS1.2,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by static.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 00000000002A0B3A.000000005F988DC6.00005C8D; Tue, 27 Oct 2020 21:14:46 +0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=95.85.24.50; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=static.rcdrun.com X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/10/27 15:43:46 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 3.11 and newer [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: -3 X-Spam_score: -0.4 X-Spam_bar: / X-Spam_report: (-0.4 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_SORBS_WEB=1.5, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:124752 Archived-At: * Stefan Monnier [2020-10-27 23:40]: > >> > I would like to be able to dump the emacs how it is, and then later > >> > just open it up similar to application snapshot feature at Amiga or > >> > Dragonfly BSD. > >> Maybe you're looking for desktop.el (which comes bundled with > >> Emacs)? > > I mean dumping Emacs from memory into file and loading it later into > > memory straight. > > You're describing a means to an end (which may or may not exist and may > or may not work as you want it to (e.g. it probably won't magically > reopen the same number of frames at the same place on your screen)). > > I'm describing another means to a similar end (which does exist). > > Anyway, your answer implicitly tells me that desktop.el does not give > you the result you're looking for, tho I'm not sure exactly what it is > that is "missing". I wish some speed at opening whole environment. Desktop.el is slow. -- Jean Louis