Overview

Very lean session saver for Emacs.

• Quickstart
• Explanation
• See Also
• Compatibility and Requirements

Quickstart

(require 'minimal-session-saver)
 
(minimal-session-saver-install-aliases)
 
;; execute M-x mss-store RET
 
;; quit and restart Emacs
 
;; execute M-x mss-load RET

Explanation

The only information stored by this library is a list of visited files. Not window configuration, nor point position.

Giving a universal prefix argument to any of the interactive session-management commands causes a prompt for the session-state file location, allowing minimal-session-saver to be used as a (very) minimal project manager.

When frame-bufs.el is present, the session associated with a particular frame can be stored and recovered.

Several interactive commands are provided to manage sessions:

minimal-session-saver-store
minimal-session-saver-load
minimal-session-saver-store-frame      ; requires frame-bufs.el
minimal-session-saver-load-frame       ; requires frame-bufs.el
minimal-session-saver-add-buffer
minimal-session-saver-remove-buffer
minimal-session-saver-mark-stored-buffers

without keybindings.

An additional command

minimal-session-saver-install-aliases

installs shorter command aliases for the above, and can be run at autoload-time through a setting in customize.

See Also

• M-x customize-group RET minimal-session-saver RET

Compatibility and Requirements

GNU Emacs version 24.4-devel     : yes, at the time of writing
GNU Emacs version 24.3           : yes
GNU Emacs version 23.3           : yes
GNU Emacs version 22.2           : yes, with some limitations
GNU Emacs version 21.x and lower : unknown

Uses if present: frame-bufs.el