Resume emacs on reboot

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chrishenders Author

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Resume emacs on reboot

I'd like to use Lion's resuming applications feature for emacs. But if I keep

emacs open and try to shutdown the computer, it asks to exit emacs first. Is

there anyway to avoid shutting down emacs every time I have to shutdown the

computer? I'm using a MBP 13" and I don't like to resume, rather shutdown

completely when I'm not using it.

I'm using the Terminal program that comes with Lion and it always stays open

when I shutdown the computer without any issues.

Thanks.

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2)

Posted on Nov 18, 2011 6:23 PM

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Camelot

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Nov 19, 2011 7:45 PM in response to chrishenders

I don't see any easy way to do this.

You see, the Mac OS's shutdown/restore process only keeps a list of the applications that were running and restores them after a reboot. In the case of Terminal.app, it knows Terminal was running, but not necessarily what each Terminal window/shell was doing.

In most cases, it's the application that keeps track of it's own state and deals with reopening documents/windows, etc. after a reboot and Terminal.app doesn't do that here. It would require hooks into emacs (and any other shell application) to save state across a reboot, and you don't want that kind of thing to work on a piecemeal basis - if it worked for emacs then users would expect it to work for vi, nano, wireshark, any any other shell command you care to mention.

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