emacs remember all opened files with splitted windows and their positions...

Question

Hello,

I'm a little bit out of my mind already so sorry for my language.. I just wanna kill somebody for now, so ofcourse SO is great place to search for normal help. it took really a lot of time to get used to emacs. I like the way it handles everything with shortcuts, that's why VIM is banned for my soul. I just fill I'll give up soon, because everything I want to have from normal editor like coda, is just impossible without additional scripts.

I WANT TO RESTORE EVERYTHING LIKE IT WAS BEFORE.

splited windows, their position, opened files/shells/debugger. Everything back to as it was, coda can do this, eclipse can do this, anything can do this. PLEASE..

when I need any normal feature for emacs it always tons of scripts need to have it. i thought i really would die with pyflakes, code-color, shrink-windows bindings and 20 other scripts which I even don't remember.. why so much elementary things is not integrated already??? It's getting on my nerves.. how the f*ck it's possible to work with this thing??

Any good books for idiots like me?

Answer 1

Take a look under "Options" > "Customize Emacs".

It sounds like you want to enable two features:

• "Save Place" which saves the location in each file the next time you load it.
• "Desktop" which saves all the files you currently have loaded.

Or if you feel like editing your .emacs file:

(custom-set-variables
  ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom.
  ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
  ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
  ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
  '(desktop-enable t nil (desktop))
  '(save-place t nil (saveplace)))

Answer 2

Not sure whether it is nearing to what you want, but give it a try: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/LayoutRestore

Answer 3

I have this working emacs always starts back up exactly as I left it, unless it crashes...

http://www.gentei.org/~yuuji/software/windows.el

Which will save all window spits and open buffers.

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/SavePlace

Will save your place in files. Here roughly how to set it up:

(require 'windows)
(require 'recentf)
;; -- load the saved windows automatically on boot
(add-hook 'window-setup-hook 'resume-windows)
;; -- save place in file
(setq-default save-place t)
;; --  use this command to quit and save your setup
(define-key ctl-x-map "C" 'see-you-again)

;; -- set up window saving !! Place at end of .emacs file
(win:startup-with-window)