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Questions tagged [persistence]

Questions involving saving parts of Emacs' state to disk

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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/using session and adding them like so: (add-to-list…
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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 because I happened to exit a file.
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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 example, here's CL to read a file containing lines…
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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 start from the beginning, I'd like Emacs to do the…
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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 can we store the value to disk and read it again…
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How do you serialize a window-configuration?

Suppose I used C-x r w to run window-configuration-to-register, and suppose I saved it to the register k. Later, when I read back the register, I get this. ELISP> (get-register ?k) (# #) Is there any…
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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, it takes me back to the table of contents. I have…
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Is there a way to save layouts for Tab Bar Mode?

I have multiple tab workspaces open. And it would be a shame if I had to open and organise them like this every time I start emacs or restart my computer. Is there a way to save layouts?
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Make fido-mode remember which command I chose

I've been happy to replace smex with fido-mode in emacs 28, as fido-mode generally has much nicer behavior. However, one thing that I miss from smex is that smex would remember which strings correspond to which commands and persist them, so that the…
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save a specific layout

I am pretty new to emacs (doom-emacs in this case) and I have an idea of what I want to do, but not sure how to do it. What I am after is that when I open a .js file, I want to split my window into 3. one small window on the left where I want to run…
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Setting new values in `org-refile-target` not working

I'm trying to add a new file foo.org and delete an old bar.org from the org-refile-target variable. So doing (setq org-refile-targets (quote (("~/foo.org" :maxlevel . 2)) should work by replacing the former (setq org-refile-targets (quote…
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I need to restore the *scratch* buffer from the last time I used emacs even though I killed it and had to restart

I was using emacs (XEmacs actually) and using the scratch buffer to experiment with regular expressions for a regex-replace operation that was giving me trouble. That has nothing to do with the problem, just setting the context. A power failure…
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How to make buffer order in tab-line persistent?

I'm using global-tab-line-mode, and I would like the order of tabs to persist. Say my buffer/tab order is: | a.el | b.el | c.el | and b.el is the current buffer. If I call (find-file "a.el") the tab order will change to | b.el | c.el | a.el | I find…
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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" the next time I start emacs and execute I want the…
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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 to persist like everything else?
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