Re: auto-save-desktop?

[Steve Wainstead <swain@panix.com>]

I have two lines in my .emacs that take care of it.

;; load the desktop on startup
(desktop-load-default)
;; automatically save the desktop on exit.
(setq desktop-enable t)


Manually, just do M-x desktop-read to load the last saved desktop.

~swain


gebser@ameritech.net wrote:
> This sounds great.  I've always wanted a way to save a session like
> you've described.  So I put your code verbatim into my .emacs.  
> Question now is: how do I retrieve a session after coming back from,
> say, an X crash???
> 
> tnx,
> ken
> 
> At 15:30 (UTC-0400) on Thu, 17 Apr 2003 Steve Wainstead said:
> 
> = I'm trying this for now:
> = 
> = (defun desktop-auto-save ()
> =    "Added to auto-save-hook so the desktop is not lost."
> =    (desktop-save "~/")
> =    (message "Wrote desktop.")
> =    )
> = 
> = (add-hook 'auto-save-hook 'desktop-auto-save t)
> = 
> = Your code worked fine too... thanks!
> = ~swain
> = 
> = Ehud Karni wrote:
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> = > On Tue, 15 Apr 2003 10:24:50 -0400, Steve Wainstead <swain@ampira.com> wrote:
> = > 
> = >>Does anyone know of an extension (or an existing way in Emacs that I 
> = >>missed) to automatically save the desktop? I'd like Emacs to do 
> = >>desktop-save to a user-specified file periodically; I lost my X session 
> = >>yesterday and had several open files.
> = > 
> = > 
> = > I have the following code on my .emacs :
> = > 
> = > (defun desktop-save-in-home-dir ()
> = >   "save desktop on home directory"
> = >        (if (buffer-file-name)          ;; do only for real files
> = >            (let (find-file-hooks       ;; must - do not loop on this function
> = >                  kill-buffer-hook)     ;; must - do not loop on this function
> = >                (desktop-save "~/")
> = >                ))
> = >        nil)
> = > 
> = > (add-hook 'find-file-hooks  'desktop-save-in-home-dir t)
> = > (add-hook 'kill-buffer-hook 'desktop-save-in-home-dir t)
> = > 
> = > Ehud.
> = > 
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