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Session Management for Emacs

When you start Emacs, package Session restores various variables (e.g., input histories) from your last session. It also provides a menu containing recently changed/visited files and restores the places (e.g., point) of such a file when you revisit it.

To restore the variables, this package writes a session file (~/.session) when you exit Emacs. The file includes the values of variables which are automatically updated by Emacs during some editing operations:

To restore the places of a recently changed/visited file when you revisit it, this packages stores the places of a buffer in a special variable (the list mentioned above) when you kill that buffer (this includes exiting Emacs). Places are:

As opposed to desktop.el and other packages, Session does not automatically revisits all files from your last session, most of which are not interesting anymore.

Check the details for new sub-menus and further explanations. Check the news for the newest version number, recent changes and installation instructions. At SourceForge.net, check the project summary and download the package.

You might want to try some other Emacs packages I have written: ANTLR-Mode, Template and X-Symbol.

Christoph Wedler, 14 Mar 2003