Emacs #1 - saving your state after exit , and tabbar use

Often you need to restore your emacs session, but it's not a good way to load all buffer per start, just keep it.
Also, there are useful addition to emacs called tabbar.el it can keeps your buffers without its creating.
I don't want to write where you can find this file - if you are using debian you can find it out in emacs-goodies-el package.
So, the first step is to enable tabbar mode by default:

(tabbar-mode t)

After this I recommend to bind a keys for switch between tabs:

(global-set-key [(control shift w)] 'tabbar-forward)
(global-set-key [(control shift q)] 'tabbar-backward)
(global-set-key [(control shift e)] 'tabbar-forward-group)
(global-set-key [(control shift d)] 'tabbar-backward-group)

You can use your own key bindings depending on your choice and feel.
The second step is to use a desktop addition (that comes with emacs22):

(when (fboundp 'desktop-load-default)
  (desktop-load-default)
  (mapcar
   (lambda (symbol)
     (add-to-list 'desktop-globals-to-save symbol))
   '((buffer-name-history      . 100)
     (dired-regexp-history     . 20)
     (extended-command-history . 100)
     (file-name-history        . 500)
     (grep-history             . 50)
     (minibuffer-history       . 100)
     (query-replace-history    . 60)
     (read-expression-history  . 60)
     (regexp-history           . 60)
     (regexp-search-ring       . 20)
     (search-ring              . 20)
     (shell-command-history    . 50)))
;;;    (desktop-read)
  )

(add-to-list 'desktop-locals-to-save 'buffer-file-coding-system)
(add-to-list 'desktop-locals-to-save 'tab-width)

(setq-default desktop-missing-file-warning nil)
(setq-default desktop-path (quote ("~")))
(setq-default desktop-save t)
(setq-default desktop-save-mode t)

(setq-default save-place t)

And this all, this code snippets from my ~/.emacs file.