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I also threw in a project backend to recognize non-version controlled projects through the presence of a “.project” file in the path.

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It works perfectly within a session, but it only restores files and directory windows across sessions (no shells, help buffers, etc).

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At just a few defuns and a couple of hook functions, it really is much simpler than full fledged workspace management packages for Emacs. Normally this kind of customization would just live in init.el, but I decided to package it in case someone’s looking for a similar feature. When I switch projects I switch window configurations too, opening files if needed: In addition to the window configuration, project files saved by project-x are restored (as highlighted in ibuffer here.) Enhanced project switching Your browser does not support the video tag. Resume a saved project state in a fresh Emacs process: Project-x saves my project state (open files, buffers and window configuration) and restores them across Emacs sessions. This is especially so since all the ingredients to seamlessly switch projects are present in the Emacs API but haven’t been put together.īetween burly, bufler, persp-mode, projectile and various tab libraries I’m sure this hole is covered, but I’m happy with project.el and wanted something much simpler, so I whipped something up. Spinning up a new Emacs session (it happens) or switching between projects (using project.el) always annoyed me since I’d have to reopen or redisplay the project files I was working on last, then recreate my preferred window configuration and so on. Somehow there’s no clear way to bookmark and switch to (across Emacs sessions) a collection of files, buffers and windows together as a unit… or project. desktop-read is an all-or-nothing affair. Each perspective has its own buffer list and its own window layout, along with some other isolated niceties, like the xref ring.

But the window configurations vaporize when you shut down Emacs, and they don’t handle unopened file buffers. The Perspective package provides multiple named workspaces (or 'perspectives') in Emacs, similar to multiple desktops in window managers like Awesome and XMonad, and Spaces on the Mac.

There’s current-window-configuration (and its register variants) and desktop-save, and you can act on groups of buffers by every predicate imaginable in ibuffer.

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If you need help getting to this point, where you can, for example, use use-package, that's a different question, and unless you say otherwise, most people will assume you already have that set up/know how to use packages.Just a short note for today, as the super-fast-latex post is still cooking:Įmacs provides a few mechanisms to manage buffer/window state as a group. This is also what other commenters mean by the 'just use' it messaging you're feeling frustrated with there's no configuration required, most packages work out of the box, and further configuration is only for tweaking them to fit exactly into what you'd like, and we don't know exactly what you'd like. The :commands is just making the package wait to load until you use the listed command, and you don't need this just to try out the package. Of these options, however, only John Wiegley's includes Treemacs (as suggested, it's probably what you want here), and here's the whole configuration: (use-package treemacs Here's some of my favorites to take a look at: I still refer back to some good ones when I'm trying something totally new or want to see a different perspective on something. If you're not comfortable writing Lisp, or you want to see how others have done it, tons of people have published their configs on GitHub, GitLab and elsewhere. When asking for recommendations about some desired functionality, it will be common for people to suggest packages and expect you to try them without having them write your init.el for you. If you refuse to use the excellent beginner-friendly distributions like Spacemacs, Doom, Prelude, etc., you'll need to build your init.el from scratch, or use something like the Configuration Generator.

There's really very little that Emacs can't do, but the community can only hold your hand so much. Or just tell me that Emacs can't do that, so I don't ever spend any time on it

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