Re: saveplace and friends

[Uwe Brauer]

    > The default should work just fine.  What Uwe needs is turn on the
    > mode:

    >   (require 'saveplace)
    >   (save-place-mode 1)

    > Emacs has long ago switched away from the policy of having a mode turn
    > on just by loading a file.  Nowadays, users need to actually turn on
    > the mode.

Right, it seems that

(require 'saveplace)
(if (fboundp #'save-place-mode)
  (save-place-mode +1)
  (setq-default save-place t))

Does the trick, which is a more complicated version of what you
proposed. Sorry for the noise, but the emacswiki needs an upgrade.


https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/SavePlace