Comments on: Best Practice: Rembember Application State

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 03:51:58 +0000

The answer is emacs

I dunno what editor you're using these days, Mark, but here's the answer to your woes:

(defun elb-after-save ()
(desktop-save "~/"))

(add-hook 'auto-save-hook 'elb-after-save)

(desktop-save-mode t)
(desktop-load)

It won't automatically apply unsaved changes on restart (you have to use M-x recover-file); there may be a way to do that, but I don't know what it is. I've never tried. It does the rest, though.

By: Mark Doliner

Mark Doliner — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 05:41:11 +0000

I don’t know, probably not?

By: whatsupdawgs

whatsupdawgs — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 02:40:01 +0000

Out of curiosity, are there any apps that do this? I’m happy when I find apps that restore what documents you have open and restore any changes you’ve made, but do any apps actually save your scroll point, your highlighting, and so on?

By: terror_firma

terror_firma — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 22:34:15 +0000

Although if your editor is doing all of that, the concept of 'saving' is a little murky. Why require the user to take action to do it when it's happening in the background for you anyway?

Sounds like you should read The Humane Interface!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:21:05 +0000

Jordan was telling me about a demo at Java One that did pretty much exactly that. Except it wasn’t a traditional desktop PC. It was a thin client that connected to the cloud and stored all the state there.