Purpose: When you visit a file, point goes to the last place where it was when you previously visited the same file.
To use it, turn it on in the options menu - “Save place in files between Sessions”.
Alternatively, you could add the following to your InitFile:
(save-place-mode 1)
Note that saveplace
is auto-loaded by save-place-mode
. So you do not need to explicitly require it.
(require 'saveplace) (setq-default save-place t)
Note that using setq
will not do because the variable is buffer-local.
Your saved places are written to the file stored in the file specified by save-place-file
. This defaults to ~/.emacs.d/places
in newer emacs versions (25.1+) and to ~/.emacs-places
in older emacs versions. In the latter case, you might want to change it to keep your home directory uncluttered.
For example:
(setq save-place-file (locate-user-emacs-file "places" ".emacs-places"))
If emacs is slow to exit after enabling saveplace, you may be running afoul of save-place-forget-unreadable-files
. On exit, it checks that every loaded file is readable before saving its buffer position - potentially very slow if you use NFS.
(setq save-place-forget-unreadable-files nil)
will restores emacs exit to nearly instantaneous.