From: John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com>
To: 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: Tue, 04 Oct 2011 14:13:05 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2r52so9j2.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CAGhLh6EJjBCJ8V87uROLk1Z3EgfrpLqVRcXFaSfafdibDoWU_w@mail.gmail.com
>>>>> 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):
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.
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-04 21:00 UTC|newest]
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 [this message]
2011-10-05 8:26 ` Rainer M Krug
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