Re: Questions round session management.

[Richard Stallman]

    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.

ange-ftp should continue doing its job well if you restart Emacs.
As long as the remote file names in use are saved, that should work
fine.

I don't understand what you mean by calling mail and news "live
sessions".  Won't Rmail and Gnus pick up where you left off, after you
shut them down cleanly and visit them again in a new Emacs session?

Shell buffers would indeed be lost if you did not arrange to save
them in files and reload.  Maybe it would be reasonable to do that.
We could make it as simple as using C-x C-w in a shell buffer.
However, the shell's own context would be lost too.