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From: briscoe-duke@CS.YALE.EDU (Duke Briscoe)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Saving/Restoring state in GNU Emacs 18.55
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Date: 15 Jul 90 02:14:49 GMT
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In article <668@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM> baur@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM (Steven L. Baur) writes:
>From article <9474@uswat.UUCP>, by naim@uswat.uswest.com (Naim Abdullah):
>> I am currently using a machine that sometimes crashes and destroys
>> my carefully built state in GNU emacs (all the files and buffer
>> that I am editing).
>
>What you definitely want to use is saveconf.el, but that is not much
>help against system crashes (your state information doesn't get written
>out).  Your best hope is to use saveconf, exit emacs periodically, and
                                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>restart it. Emacs is a marvelous program, and does many wonderful things,
>but it cannot protect you completely against a system crash.  Maybe
>someone wants to add code to saveconf.el to periodically write out window
>state?
>
>--
>steve	baur@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM


You don't have to exit GNU emacs to get the saveconf.el code to save
your buffer configuration.  Just use the command save-context.  This
command writes out a file which tells what files you were looking at,
and what point in the files.  The command recover-context will read in
all the files and put point back where it was.  I've occasionally
found it useful to rename the saved info file as a way of documenting
all the relevant files of some project I'm working on.  This is useful
for a large project, particularly reading someone else's code, when I
might go back to working on that stuff after doing other things for a
few months.

Duke