A while ago, I released save-visited-files-mode, a mode I wrote to keep files open between Emacs sessions. A few people including me have been using it since then; I’ve written about it before here and here. A few weeks ago, Jonathan Kotta emailed me a patch that fixed a few minor issues, as well as cleaned up the code. After applying the patch, I’m now releasing version 1.2. The changes from version 1.1 are as follows:
- Changed the default location of the persistence file so a new directory doesn’t have to be created.
- Makes sure that save-visited-files-location is writable; if not, displays an error.
- Doesn’t print a message every time it saves the file list.
- Miscellaneous code cleanup.
I’ve also moved save-visited-files-mode.el to a github repository, located at http://github.com/nflath/save-visited-files.This is a much better solution than keeping a copy just in my emacs customization subversion, since I am distributing this as a stand-alone project. I’ll continue posting updates here, as well, but the source will be committed to that repository.