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    Cool vim feature: sessions! vim jvns.ca
    calvin avatar via calvin 11 months ago | cached | 4 comments

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    matthias avatar matthias 11 months ago | link

    I’m using vi/vim now for over 20 years and never stumbled upon the session feature. Damn, I’m getting old…

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      JohnCarter avatar JohnCarter edited 11 months ago | link

      Hokay, so cool, vim has sessions. That’s sounds like a good idea. I wonder what’s in the emacs package archive that does that?

      desktop+           melpa      Handle special buffers when saving & restoring sessions
elscreen           melpa      Emacs window session manager
escreen            melpa      emacs window session manager
minimal-session... melpa      Very lean session saver
modtime-skip-mode  melpa      Minor mode for disabling modtime and supersession checks on files.
persistent-scratch melpa      Preserve the scratch buffer across Emacs sessions
psession           melpa      Persistent save of elisp objects.
remember-last-t... melpa      Remember the last used theme between sessions.
save-visited-files melpa      save opened files across sessions
session            melpa      use variables, registers and buffer places across sessions
term+mux           melpa      term+ terminal multiplexer and session management
tramp-term         melpa      Automatic setup of directory tracking in ssh sessions.

      Also the builtin desktop.el package does that sort of thing. Some of the above are enhancements of desktop.el

      I wonder which of those are best. I will explore and report back…

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        JohnCarter avatar JohnCarter 11 months ago | link

        The builtin desktop.el seems to do what I what. Restores, files and frames.

        Can do it all the time or on demand.

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          aminb avatar aminb 11 months ago | link

          There’s also persp-mode, which I’ve been using for a while (via doom-emacs), and it’s quite nice.