Re: [O] [OT] How to save and restore window and frame layout and position of windows on monitor - session management
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 9:13 PM, John Wiegley jwieg...@gmail.com wrote: Rainer M Krug r.m.k...@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 -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology Stellenbosch University South Africa Tel : +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44 Cell: +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98 Fax (F): +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44 Fax (D):+49 - (0)3 21 21 25 22 44 email: rai...@krugs.de Skype: RMkrug
Re: [O] [OT] How to save and restore window and frame layout and position of windows on monitor - session management
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 7:43 PM, Dave Abrahams d...@boostpro.com wrote: on Mon Oct 03 2011, brian powell briangpowellms-AT-gmail.com wrote: * Discovered this a few days ago: Will it solve your proble--which seems to be saving state; well, maybe, if you play with the code a little: ;;; perspective.el --- switch between named perspectives of the editor ;; Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Nathan Weizenbaum nex...@gmail.com ;; ;; Licensed under the same terms as Emacs. ;; Author: Nathan Weizenbaum ;; URL: http://github.com/nex3/perspective-el ;; Version: 1.6 ;; Created: 2008-03-05 ;; By: Nathan Weizenbaum ;; Keywords: workspace, convenience, frames ;;; Commentary: ;; This package provides tagged workspaces in Emacs, similar to ;; workspaces in windows managers such as Awesome and XMonad (and ;; somewhat similar to multiple desktops in Gnome or Spaces in OS X). Aaagh, not another one! Now I have another package to evaluate. Can't the community settle on one solution to this problem? http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/WorkgroupsForWindows Thanks for your replies - I'll look into WorkgroupsForWindows as it seems tho offer more options then the other and a better manual. I am already using desktop-save, but I have the feeling that it sometimes does not work. Cheers and thanks, Rainer -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology Stellenbosch University South Africa Tel : +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44 Cell: +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98 Fax (F): +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44 Fax (D):+49 - (0)3 21 21 25 22 44 email: rai...@krugs.de Skype: RMkrug
Re: [O] [OT] How to save and restore window and frame layout and position of windows on monitor - session management
* Also, there are these commands which may be what is sought (to save state): ** Click mouse-2 on a completion to select it. In this buffer, type RET to select the completion near point. Possible completions are: desktop-change-dir desktop-clear desktop-readdesktop-remove desktop-revert desktop-save desktop-save-in-desktop-dir desktop-save-mode On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 5:13 AM, Rainer M Krug r.m.k...@gmail.com wrote: Hi this is slightly off-topic, but I rather try it here first: I would like to save my window and frame layout and restore it after re-starting emacs. I have the buffers auto saved, and that is working. But I don't get my head around the session management. I found the website http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/SessionManagement but each time I look at it, I get more confused and lost. So - does somebody use session management (I am at the moment only interested to getting back the layout of the different frames in a window, and all open windows restored) and could share some insight and code snippets for a confused org-user to achieve this? Thanks, Rainer -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology Stellenbosch University South Africa Tel : +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44 Cell: +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98 Fax (F): +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44 Fax (D): +49 - (0)3 21 21 25 22 44 email: rai...@krugs.de Skype: RMkrug
Re: [O] [OT] How to save and restore window and frame layout and position of windows on monitor - session management
on Mon Oct 03 2011, brian powell briangpowellms-AT-gmail.com wrote: * Discovered this a few days ago: Will it solve your proble--which seems to be saving state; well, maybe, if you play with the code a little: ;;; perspective.el --- switch between named perspectives of the editor ;; Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Nathan Weizenbaum nex...@gmail.com ;; ;; Licensed under the same terms as Emacs. ;; Author: Nathan Weizenbaum ;; URL: http://github.com/nex3/perspective-el ;; Version: 1.6 ;; Created: 2008-03-05 ;; By: Nathan Weizenbaum ;; Keywords: workspace, convenience, frames ;;; Commentary: ;; This package provides tagged workspaces in Emacs, similar to ;; workspaces in windows managers such as Awesome and XMonad (and ;; somewhat similar to multiple desktops in Gnome or Spaces in OS X). Aaagh, not another one! Now I have another package to evaluate. Can't the community settle on one solution to this problem? http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/WorkgroupsForWindows -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com
