Bug#911642: please extend long desc (eg: why sesman is not a normal session manager)
Package: sesman
Version: 0.3.3-1
Severity: normal
Hi Sean,
Just following up on our conversation in #debian-emacs before I hit
another busy week and forget. I took a look at the upstream README.md
to better inform this bug, to not be totally ignorant.
https://github.com/vspinu/sesman/blob/master/README.md
I noticed that while upstream states that IDEs are the primary focus,
the project is a "Generic Session Manager for Emacs". Given that it
can manage non-Emacs processes I wonder if it would be useful for
building custom non-IDE sessions for specific tasks.
If that seems like too much work then it seems like
'desktop-save-mode' from desktop.el (built-in) should be recommended
in the long description for users who just want something simple to
save their buffers when they quit and restore them when they start a
new session--this is the most basic form of session management.
It sounds like sesman can do a lot more, if only because it is
designed to save and restore multiple named states. I suspect that it
has great utility when task switching between radically different
complicated projects. So the two things I'd like to see are:
1) Very short differences between the built-in desktop.el and sesman
2) Info that would help a dev determine if sesman could be useful (or not)
for their project outside of the CIDER, ESS, Geiser, Robe, SLIME context.
Thanks!
Nicholas
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