Questions tagged [session]

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How can I restart emacs and preserve my open buffers and interactive history?

As a follow-up to What's the fastest way to reload my .emacs file when I make changes so all my affected buffers will pick up those changes? It was suggested that the restart question should be asked separately. Is there an easy way to reopen all…
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Session files in emacs.d folder

There are files like session.10110ac205e127d7e2143131143297155100000021880037 in my .emacs.d folder. I would like to do something about it but could not figure out what to do. What are these files for ? Why emacs generate multiple files ?
Rangi Lin
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How can I get sessions.el to save my registers?

I am trying to get session to work, and I am especially keen on having my registers persistent between sessions. I installed the package sessions.el via Melpa (M-x list-packages) and I added this to my .emacs (require 'session) (add-hook…
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how to eval expression in a elisp "session"?

I would like to eval elisp expressions in a "session" so that side-effects only affect expressions which happen in that "session". For instance defuns that are evaluated in the session would only be visible within the session and would not clobber…
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