persistent-overlays is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. persistent-overlays is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with GNU Emacs. If not, see . About Bugs should be reported on the github issues page: https://github.com/mneilly/Emacs-Persistent-Overlays/issues The goal for persistent-overlays is to maintain persistent overlays between Emacs sessions. It has been tested with hideshow and outline modes on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. However, this version should be considered beta software and it has not been previously released. Overlays are stored in ~/.emacs-pov by default. There are several customizable variables which allow a user to change the file naming convention and the storage location of the overlay files. Please use describe-mode for a full description. To enable this mode add the following to your ~/.emacs or ~/emacs.d/init.el file. This assumes that you have placed persistent-overlays.el somewhere in your load-path. (load-library "persistent-overlays") Enjoy