Answer by Jazz

Jazz — Thu, 20 May 2010 11:39:48 -0400

For the time being, I ended up with revive.el.

A short description:
Revive.el saves current editing status including the window splitting configuration, which can't be recovered by 'desktop.el' nor by 'saveconf.el', into a file and reconstructs that status correctly.

In other words, it recovers all your buffers in the windows you left them.

To get revive.el running, just copy those lines into your .emacs file:

(add-to-list 'load-path "~/EmacsEL/") ;;The path where you store your *.el files
(load "revive")
(autoload 'save-current-configuration "revive" "Save status" t)
(autoload 'resume "revive" "Resume Emacs" t)
(autoload 'wipe "revive" "Wipe Emacs" t)
;;Keyboard shortcuts
(define-key ctl-x-map "S" 'save-current-configuration)
(define-key ctl-x-map "F" 'resume)
(define-key ctl-x-map "K" 'wipe)

After "installing", you can use the following keyboard shortcuts:
To save your configuration: C-u C-x S
To load the configuration: C-u C-x F

You can also specify a buffer number after C-u (e.g.: C-u 2 C-x S), to store your configuration in a certain buffer.

Still, let me know if you found something better! :)

Answer by Johnathan Lanke

Johnathan Lanke — Thu, 20 May 2010 01:10:21 -0400

I haven't tried any of these out myself (I probably will after posting this), but I found a ton of results on emacswiki.

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/WindowsAndRegisters

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TaskMode

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/LayoutRestore

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/WorkSpaces

Happy Hacking (-:

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