[ESS] Different "settings" for emacs dependent on in which directory I start?

[Rainer M Krug]

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Sebastian P. Luque <spluque at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Jun 2008 09:46:26 +0200,
> "Rainer M Krug" <r.m.krug at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi I know this is not strictly ESS, but I am using ESS and ECB in
>> emacs to program usiong R.
>
>> I was using SuSE 10.2, and emacs remembered the settings and files
>> open on a per directory basis, i.e. depending on the directory from
>> which I started emacs, it re-opend the files were open when I quit
>> emacs the last time in this directory and started ecb when it was on
>> before.
>
>> Now I switched to Xubuntu 8.04, and I don't get this to work.
>
>> Any ideas on how I can make it work again?
>
> Maybe your previous Emacs installation was relying on the desktop
> library, which does what you're looking for.  See section "Saving Emacs
> Sessions" of the Emacs manual.  That might also set up your ecb.

Thanks a lot.
Adding the option

(desktop-save-mode 1)

to the .emacs file, worked.

Rainer

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