GNU bug report logs - #9105
Feature req: Remembering emacs frames, windows, buffer position to subsequent session

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From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: gebser <at> mousecar.com
Cc: 9105 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#9105: Feature req: Remembering emacs frames, windows, buffer
	position to subsequent session
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 11:46:34 +0200

> Often I'll have five or more frames open, some split vertically, perhaps
> a couple split horizontally, all of them with different files (or
> "buffers") in them-- though in some instances it's possible to have the
> same buffer in more than one window or frame.  When I close emacs down
> and then invoke it again, I'd like to have the same windows come up,
> split the same way, with the same buffers/files in each frame and
> window, and even with the frames in the same location onscreen as they
> were in the prior session.  In short, the current session should be set
> up exactly like the prior session at the time it was closed.

All this should be doable now using the functions `window-state-get' and
`window-state-put'.  Could you try implementing this in desktop.el?

martin

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