Re: [OT] How to save and restore window and frame layout and position of windows on monitor - session management

[Rainer M Krug <r.m.krug@gmail.com>]

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On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 9:13 PM, John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com> wrote:

> >>>>> 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):
>

Well - I want to use it with org-mode (org file, R session, second org file,
...) so it is not *that* OT, but only slightly.


> 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.
>

Thanks for this info - I am using desktop.el, trying to get into
workgroups.el, and have not thought about session.el yet - but I might look
at it.

Thanks for all the info,

Rainer



> 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
>
>
>


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