Persistent user sessions

[sharkdp]

Use cases:

• A user often works with a certain set of variables/functions and wants to store them between sessions (and load them by default).
• A user works on two different projects and uses different environments in each of them..
• A user does not like the default variable names and wants to redefine some of them.

Possible design:

• Add save and load commands. Both take an optional string argument (session name)
• save foo saves the current session (all variables and user-defined functions); load foo restores that session (on top of the current environment?).
• If no name is given, save stores the current session under a default name. On startup, this default session is re-loaded. Similarly, load retrieves the last-saved session.

[erlenstar]

++. I was about to file a suggestion to give insect a .rc file, but I like the persistent sessions idea even better!

[triallax]

I do think this is a nice idea, but for what it's worth the first and third use cases are satisfied by the .insectrc file added recently.

[sharkdp]

I think this is now reasonable solved with Numbats customizations features: https://numbat.dev/doc/cli-customization.html