Title: Emacs 25: save cursor position Author: Solène Date: 08 December 2016 Tags: emacs Description: Since I upgraded to Emacs 25 it was no longer saving my last cursor position in edited file. This is a feature I really like because I often fire and close emacs rather than keeping it opened. Before (< emacs 25) (setq save-place-file "~/.emacs.d/saveplace") (setq-default save-place t) (require 'saveplace) Emacs 25 (save-place-mode t) (setq save-place-file "~/.emacs.d/saveplace") (setq-default save-place t) That's all :)