Re: Questions round session management.

[Tak Ota]

Fri, 1 Feb 2002 07:04:40 -0700 (MST): Richard Stallman <address@hidden> wrote:

> Emacs is primarily a text editor.

That depends on users I suppose.  To me, emacs is primarily a living
environment and the text editor aspect is a part of it.

> To try to save the entire Lisp environment would be inconvenient for
> the user.

That is true if emacs has to spend long time to dump for this purpose.
However, loosing all those live sessions including shell, mail, news,
ange-ftp and so on is also inconvenient.  Especially ange-ftp does its
job so well that there is little distinction between local file and
remote file via ange-ftp.  It may be confusing to some users that one
survives and the others don't.

> What it should do is save important editing state, as desktop.el
> does (and perhaps using desktop.el).

It is a sad but probably inevitable compromise.  I personally use a
laptop PC for my daily activity.  I leave a session by suspending the
machine therefore a perfect emacs is preserved after resuming it.

-Tak