Re: emacs.desktop non-functional

[ken]

On 03/16/2016 11:39 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: ken <gebser@mousecar.com>
> > Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2016 21:38:41 -0400
> >
> > How do I get emacs to save sessions?  In version 22.1.1 it worked fine,
> > would save which buffers had been opened and would load them all back
> > again, even if the system went out suddenly due to a power outage.  In
> > version 24.3.1 this functionality is gone, even if I do a graceful
> > shutdown.
>
> No, it still works.
>
> I'm guessing it's something in your .emacs.  Please show how do you
> turn the feature on there.

in ~/.emacs:

(desktop-save-mode 1)

I also checked its value once emacs is newly running and it says:

desktop-save-mode's value is t

In the *Customization Option...* it says:

Desktop Save Mode: Toggle  on (non-nil)
    State : SAVED and set.

$ uname -vrspio
Linux 3.10.0-327.10.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Feb 16 17:03:50 UTC 2016 
x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux