K-Y-S: Keep Your Session

Features

• a session keeps your buffer and window information.
• sessions are saved on disk, you can resume it at any time.
• a session has a list of tags, you can manage your sessions with them.

Install

Put the kys.el in your emacs’ load-path.

Add following to your .emacs file:

(require 'kys)
; (setq kys-directory "~/.emacs.d/kys")
(kys-init)
; key-bindings
(global-set-key "\M-sc" 'kys-session-commit)
(global-set-key "\M-si" 'kys-session-init)
(global-set-key "\M-sr" 'kys-session-reset)
(global-set-key "\M-sd" 'kys-session-delete)
(global-set-key "\M-sl" 'kys-session-list)
(global-set-key "\M-sk" 'kys-session-kill)
(global-set-key "\M-ss" 'kys-session)

The global variable kys-directory is the location for saving sessions.

Usage

• Enter a session:
  • Start a new session kys-session-init
  • Switch to an existing session kys-session-reset (use kys-session-list to find all existing sessions)
• Do some changes to buffers or windows
• Save current session
  • Just save kys-session-commit
  • Save and kill session kys-session-kill (no session now)
• or Switch session kys-session-reset (current session will be saved)
• or Delete session kys-session-delete (delete a session, if it’s current session, the session will be killed without saving)
• or Show current session kys-session

To-do

• [ ] filter by tags
• [ ] more beatiful presentation of information
• [ ] lock screen

About

This package is developed by hoverwinter, you can find the repository on Github.

Any questions or bugs, please go to the issue or send an email.

License

GPL License 3

Copyright (C) hoverwinter 2016