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From: "Paul Kinnucan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 2:17 AM
Subject: Re: Off-topic: desktop.el and window registers
>
> Hi Ray,
>
> AFAIK, there is no quick-and-dirty way to do what you want. The Emacs
> window configuration functions save windows configurations as opaque lisp
> objects. There is no direct way to write opaque Lisp objects to a file and
> recover them. To do what you want is, I believe, possible in Lisp, but
> would require a Lisp program that cycles through all the frames open in
> your session, gets and saves their screen locations and sizes to a file
> and, for each frame, the windows open in each frame, their heights, and the
> files displayed in each frame. I don't know of any existing Lisp program
> that does this.
>
> - Paul
I use windows.el and revive.el they do exactly that.
You can save window,frame configurations to a file, in fact I have many configuration
files with different settings.
The way I use the program is for each project to have one .windows configuration file
that stores all my open files, windows, frames etc...
This way whenever I work on a project I begin by reviving the last status of that
project and immediately I get up my emacs exactly as I left it for that project !
See: http://www.gentei.org/~yuuji/software/
More Info:
;;; Window manager for GNU Emacs
;;;
;;;[What is Windows?]
;;;
;;; You can divide the screen of GNU Emacs as many as you like.
;;; Since efficiency of implementation or so depends much on the
;;; style of window division, you may have your own style of
;;; partitioning. But if you switch the mode to e-mail mode or
;;; NetNews mode, they break your favorite style.
;;; Windows.el enables you to have multiple favorite window
;;; configurations at the same time, and switch them. Furthermore,
;;; it can save all window configurations into a file and restore
;;; them correctly.
;;;
;;;[What is `revive'?]
;;;
;;; Revive.el saves current editing status including the window
;;; splitting configuration, which can't be recovered by
;;; `desktop.el' nor by `saveconf.el', into a file and reconstructs
;;; that status correctly.
;;;
/ Andreas Wieweg
