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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

  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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