From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Saving a elisp data structure into string and evaluating it back into objects Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2009 06:57:17 -0600 Message-ID: References: <1e5bcefd0910061608y54755a7ejbf5def5831443da7@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1254920827 29332 80.91.229.12 (7 Oct 2009 13:07:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 13:07:07 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 07 15:06:57 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MvWEK-00039l-Ny for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:06:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38393 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MvWEH-0004Fy-0R for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Oct 2009 09:06:53 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MvW5K-0007dS-97 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:57:38 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MvW5F-0007ZX-9A for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:57:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=57748 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MvW5E-0007ZJ-U1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:57:32 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:32877) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MvW5E-0007hw-CJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:57:32 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1MvW59-00070P-5q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:57:27 +0200 Original-Received: from c-71-237-24-138.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([71.237.24.138]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:57:27 +0200 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-71-237-24-138.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:57:27 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-71-237-24-138.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Macintosh/20090812) In-Reply-To: <1e5bcefd0910061608y54755a7ejbf5def5831443da7@mail.gmail.com> X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:68724 Archived-At: Marcelo de Moraes Serpa wrote: > Hello list, > > I'm trying to combine DeskTop, layout-restore.el and revive.el to create > the ultimate persistence experience :) > > Well, what I'm trying to do is, every time I exit emacs, the whole > memory state (elisp object's tree) will be dumped to a file and reloaded > when I restart emacs again. > > Why am I trying to do this? Well, there are many settings in emacs that > are volatile, many vars that are not saved. I know that emacs has the > capability to save its vars into .emacs, but this depends on the mode > and the var, no? C-h v desktop-globals-to-save C-h v desktop-locals-to-save -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA