(info "(emacs)Saving Emacs Sessions") says You can save the desktop manually with the command `M-x desktop-save'.
But I typed M-x desktop-save TAB, and was offered only these completions: Possible completions are: desktop-save-in-desktop-dir desktop-save-mode If emacs crashed, and you have the emacs process in the gdb debugger, please include the output from the following gdb commands: `bt full' and `xbacktrace'. If you would like to further debug the crash, please read the file /usr/local/src/emacs--multi-tty--0--patch-570/etc/DEBUG for instructions. In GNU Emacs 22.0.51.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars, multi-tty) of 2006-06-16 on debian Important settings: value of $LC_ALL: nil value of $LC_COLLATE: nil value of $LC_CTYPE: nil value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil value of $LC_MONETARY: nil value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil value of $LC_TIME: nil value of $LANG: nil locale-coding-system: utf-8 default-enable-multibyte-characters: t Major mode: Info Minor modes in effect: erc-services-mode: t erc-ring-mode: t erc-pcomplete-mode: t erc-netsplit-mode: t erc-button-mode: t erc-fill-mode: t erc-stamp-mode: t erc-list-mode: t erc-autojoin-mode: t erc-track-mode: t erc-match-mode: t erc-irccontrols-mode: t erc-noncommands-mode: t erc-readonly-mode: t display-time-mode: t shell-dirtrack-mode: t iswitchb-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t utf-translate-cjk-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Recent input: l u s t r a t e d ESC DEL ESC DEL T i m e SPC o r SPC N e w s w e e k RET C-c C-@ C-c C-@ i n k TAB h o p e SPC h e ' s SPC O K , SPC w h a t e v e r SPC i t SPC i s RET ESC x d e s k TAB s TAB C-g C-h r i d e s k t o p RET ESC x r e p o r t TAB b TAB RET Recent messages: Scanning `*Group*' dabbrev-expand: No further dynamic expansion for `vou' found Scanning `#svn' Scanning `#scheme' Scanning `##cooking' Expansion found in '##cooking' Mark set [2 times] Quit Found `desktop' in Concept Index. (10 total; use `,' for next) Loading emacsbug...done -- In the movie Ghostbusters, there's a sign in the background of one scene that says, "Danger! 10,000 Ohms!" I cannot explain to laymen why people like me think that is uproariously funny. -- Steven den Beste _______________________________________________ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug