[gnu.emacs] save-context and dired buffers

briscoe-duke@CS.Yale.EDU (duke briscoe) (02/21/90)

Has anyone modified the save-context and recover-context functions
(which write out a file describing your current buffers so that they
can be reread automatically by a later editing session) so that dired
buffers will be noted in the context file and recovered by
recover-context?

Also, has anyone modified dired and the buffer-list display so that
when you list your buffers, it will tell you the pathname of the
directory corresponding to a dired buffer?  I often have dired buffers
which have the same name but are actually different parts of the
directory tree, and it would be nice if the buffer listing made them
easier to distinguish.  I actually tried to do this by setting
buffer-file-name for the dired buffers, and it did what I wanted in
the buffer listing display, but it had the unwanted side effect that
Emacs would ask me if I wanted to save the dired buffers when I did
save-some-buffers.

Duke