What alternate session managers are available for Emacs?

Question

I have read the page in Emacs wiki which contains a list of session manager plugins. But after trying all of these, I am still not happy with any of them.

By compari

Answer 1

Since you don't like the base functionality of desktop.el, throw some elisp around it:

(defvar my-desktop-session-dir
  (concat (getenv "HOME") "/.emacs.d/desktop-sessions/")
  "*Directory to save desktop sessions in")

(defvar my-desktop-session-name-hist nil
  "Desktop session name history")

(defun my-desktop-save (&optional name)
  "Save desktop with a name."
  (interactive)
  (unless name
    (setq name (my-desktop-get-session-name "Save session as: ")))
  (make-directory (concat my-desktop-session-dir name) t)
  (desktop-save (concat my-desktop-session-dir name) t))

(defun my-desktop-read (&optional name)
  "Read desktop with a name."
  (interactive)
  (unless name
    (setq name (my-desktop-get-session-name "Load session: ")))
  (desktop-read (concat my-desktop-session-dir name)))

(defun my-desktop-get-session-name (prompt)
  (completing-read prompt (and (file-exists-p my-desktop-session-dir)
                               (directory-files my-desktop-session-dir))
                   nil nil nil my-desktop-session-name-hist))

EDIT:

Getting some votes, so add niceties like completing-read and history