Re: [SLUG] Re: Religious Wars: The Next Battle?

["Triet H. Lai" <thlai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Triet H. Lai <thlai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> >> Can you log out and log back in and still have the same session running?
> >> Can you log out at work and go home and resume the same session?
> 
> > Yes, it can. Actually, there are two packages that do similar job
> > (session.el and desktop.el).  They can record a lot of info. such as how
> > many files were opened, where the cursors (points) were, registers,
> > dimensions of windows/frames, etc.
> 
> Recording stuff isn't the point, you have to keep the processes alive as well,
> does emacs do that?

AFAIK, it can't do stuff like "detach" in "screen".  However, you can do
something similar if working in X-window (if it were the case, you wouldn't
need to use "screen", would you? ;-) ): run gnuserv, lock the screen, at
home run gnuclient.