Loading outline files at start-up

[John Kane]

A hopefully simple question from a LEO neophyte/incompetent.

I normally use Loo for simple notes and as a place to hold bits of quoted text in outline format.

I would like to set up Leo to load 2 or 3 outline files on start–up.

I understand that i can do this in a ~/.leo/leo.session file but so far I have mucked it up. Can someone point me to an example? I think the problem is that I do not know how to specify a node.

[vitalije]

If you start Leo with one or more file names then it will open only those files you provided. However, if you start Leo without giving any file it will open the files that were open last time it was closed i.e. files listed in ~/.leo/leo.session. So, you have two options:

1. provide list of file names you wish to open at startup, or
2. start Leo without file names and then open outlines you wish to be open on next start and close Leo

HTH Vitalije

PS: you can also press Alt-x and then type session-restore ENTER and Leo will immediately load last saved session

[John Kane]

I, clearly am missing something. What I just tried.
Linux Ubuntu 18.04
I have a file ~/.leo/leo.session. It is empty at the moment.
Load Leo from terminal:
setting leoID from os.getenv('USER'): 'john' Leo 5.8.1-b2 devel, build
20190213233241, Wed Feb 13 23:32:41 PST 2019
workbook.leo automatically loads.
Cpen ~/leodocs/Quotes.leo
Add one item & save
Quit Leo
Check ~/.leo.session—empty
Tried
Alt-X session-restore
Terminal message: Please select an "@session" node

What am missing?

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John Kane
Kingston ON Canada

Don't you have to start Leo with --session-restore, for the session file to be loaded? And possibly --session-save, for your sessions to be saved when you exit Leo?

FWIW below is my ~/.leo/leo.session. The name of one file slightly elided with X's, but you get the idea. I have three files open in this session...

$ more ~/.leo/leo.session                                                                                                                                                                
["/home/jkn/ownCloud/@leo/jknprojects.leo#Diary:10", "/home/jkn/ownCloud/@leo/xxx-xxxxx.leo#Daily Links:0", "/home/jkn/ownCloud/@leo/projects.leo#@settings:0"]

[vitalije]

Your Leo version is too old. In older versions of Leo, it was necessary to add --session-save and --session-restore to your command line for starting Leo. In the current version those two flags are deprecated and automatically applied if you start Leo without filename. 

Vitalije

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