Re: How to persist registers across sessions?

[Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>]

>> Another possibility is to use frameset-save.  (Not surprisingly,
>> desktop.el already uses it.)
>
> I have been testing, I see the output of below command, and it looks
> like it does what it says, saving frameset.
>
> (frameset-save (frame-list)) 
>
> It should be possible to "read" back from there:
>
> (read-from-string (prin1-to-string (frameset-save (frame-list))))
>
> However, I get this error:
>
> eval: Invalid read syntax: "#" probably because somewhere inside I find this:
>
> (hywconfig-names (\"new1\" . #<window-configuration>)
>
> Thus I think that (frameset-save (frame-list)) cannot reliably
>  produce Lisp object that I can read back if there is
>  #<window-configuration> somewhere inside, as such is not readable.

I think that's why you'd be better off trying to use the `desktop.el`
code, which has already worked through those problems.
Then again, maybe `desktop.el` suffers from the same problem, of course.


        Stefan