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Bug#911642: please extend long desc (eg: why sesman is not a normal session manager)



Hi Sean,

Sorry for the delay--I've been utterly swamped with work, and have a
failing power supply.

On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 06:29:52AM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote:
> control: tag -1 +help +newcomer
> 
> Dear Nicholas,
> 
> On Mon 22 Oct 2018 at 07:33PM -0400, Nicholas D Steeves wrote:
> 
> > It sounds like sesman can do a lot more, if only because it is
> > designed to save and restore multiple named states.
> 
> I don't think it can do this!
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Patches would be welcome.

Maybe it's using the networking definition of "sessions" as a list of
connections, and only manages these?  Conversely, by glancing at the
README I noticed that sesman has "contexts...for example
current-buffer, default-directory, and project-current".  This, and
that project title is "Generic Session Manager for Emacs" suggests
that sesman can at least save/restore these.

Maybe it's session support is limited to a single buffer?  If so, the
description could say something to the affect that other session
management packages such as the built-in desktop.el are more
appropriate for saving a collection of buffers as a session.

I have to defer to you on this one, because you're more familiar with
the package, and I don't anticipate having the time to dig into the
details.  Maybe forward this question upstream?

Regards,
Nicholas

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