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