Loading perspectives upon opening emacs about perspective-el HOT 5 CLOSED

(persp-state-load "/path/to/persp-state-file.el") should work from a startup file. There was a PR for giving persp-state-load default argument values which would make it work from a hook (#120), but it was never taken over the finish line.

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I tried (persp-state-load persp-state-default-file) in my init.el, but it doesn't seem to load the saved perspectives. It also doesn't seem to error at all, so it's hard for me to tell what's wrong. Loading the perspectives with keybinds still works in either case.

Also, as far as I can tell from the code here in the repo, persp-state-load does take a default value similar to persp-state-save, but I'm not very good at elisp so that might not be correct

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persp-state-load only takes a default when called interactively (i.e. with a keybinding or from M-x). The PR I linked above was an attempt to have it also take a default when called non-interactively (i.e. from Lisp code).

I wonder if (persp-state-load persp-state-default-file) failed for you in init.el because you called it before loading and initializing perspective.el? Please try the code from eval-expression (M-: in vanilla Emacs) after startup. That works for me.

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running it through eval-expression does indeed work - however, from my understanding, perspective.el would already be loaded by the time it tries to run that line in my init.el, since I can succesfully add the save hook on the previous line, like so:

(use-package perspective
  :bind
  ("C-x C-b" . persp-list-buffers)
  :custom
  (persp-mode-prefix-key (kbd "C-z"))
  :init
  (persp-mode))

(add-hook 'kill-emacs-hook #'persp-state-save)
(persp-state-load persp-state-default-file)

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After some more testing I found out that I can auto-load the stored perspectives on startup in this way:

(add-hook 'after-init-hook
		  (lambda ()
			(persp-state-load persp-state-default-file)))

It appears simply putting the line (persp-state-load persp-state-default-file) at the end of the init.el file also works; however, I didn't notice because the default splash screen kept popping up. After I disabled the splash both of these options seem to behave the same. Two differences with desktop.el seem to be that perspective.el doesn't circumvent the splash and doesn't seem to save the emacs window size. The former is easily fixed, and the latter is not really a problem to me personally.

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