Questions tagged [persistence]
Questions involving saving parts of Emacs' state to disk
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Howto cache completing-read inputs
Is there a simple framework for making previous inputs of completing-read persistent across emacs restarts?
For instance if I start with:
(completing-read "test:" '("a" "b") nil nil) and enter "c" ...
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How can I persist my compile ring
I would like to persist my compile-ring, by which I mean the history of compile commands I use, between emacs sessions. Is there a simple way to accomplish this?
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Make pdf-tools remember the page I was on
How to make pdftools remember the page I was on when I close a PDF document, restart Emacs and reopen the PDF? Some PDF readers after opening a document go to the last page the user was on and don't ...
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Can I save my place in an info file?
I am reading through An Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp in an emacs buffer. I get to the file through C-h i and navigated to Emacs Lisp Intro. If I kill the buffer and return the same way, ...
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Why doesn't desktop-save-mode persist neotree?
Desktop-save-mode seems to save all windows except neotree - When I restart emacs, the neotree window is always gone. Why is this window different from the others? Is it possible for neotree's state ...
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persistent org-mode clock-in history
Is there a way to make the list of recently clocked-in tasks in org-mode persistent across Emacs restarts and (more importantly) closed buffers? It's annoying having to find the previous task just ...
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How to store the variable value after Emacs was closed
Suppose, we have a variable defined in ~/.emacs:
(defvar *my-var* "")
Then in **scratch** buffer we set some value to it:
(setq *my-var* "value")
After we close emacs the value will be lost. How ...
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list data structure split across files?
If I were trying to use a list as a data structure -- and it was getting really big -- is there a precedent of breaking it up and having it span files? One particular list of mine is looking very tree-...
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How to do a simple write to file
I simply need to take the output of org-element-parse-buffer and put it in a file -- maybe with some "if-does-not-exist" etc. bells and whistles. In CL I have with-open-file and write as tools. For ...
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How to Persist Evil Markers?
I want to be able to save my buffer local evil markers (m to mark a location and then ' or ` to jump to it) across emacs sessions/instances. I'm not really sure how to do this. I tried installing/...
