From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [ELPA] New package: activities Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2024 09:45:02 +0200 Message-ID: <86frykbksh.fsf@gnu.org> References: Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="1934"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Adam Porter Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 26 08:46:04 2024 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1rTGuZ-0000KT-MG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 26 Jan 2024 08:46:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rTGto-0003kG-Fq; Fri, 26 Jan 2024 02:45:16 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rTGti-0003eE-22 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jan 2024 02:45:11 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rTGth-00069r-Mi; Fri, 26 Jan 2024 02:45:09 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=u/ad8VxRLMR10sFF1twbOoA7LFRYf9aQIz8fcqGlHf8=; b=F97+bFh4Ugkf fNzWsmY/uZU6OxjPxHdVwoHPUU4fvnh0GeZKQ3Ii5B1MWlHEei8ztTofGVon5o5S3oWu66v/Qwr0t dzu+nBIyTX1w/wZn+sh+Dd/X8zSFeq2Sr/mshlGPwdzGnkfr/E9NdhRaOeVErvbXXBbcaccfxqkkT LGWdcGKFgXPTYLGUfTl6lXELU0/JOu6DeTF55ot1zL8n5W+j3ohNNSea2Dy2x1lOSOP6KJDWHIK++ M4NGUInQF87PxGf7MnvTIqRihypDjUm7MOAu3ixNeHL8OMQodmb1Gvo1lKVYXLmQJWi/8RkZsDt7g xo4Os39bYhZACeI5E2YWgg==; In-Reply-To: (message from Adam Porter on Thu, 25 Jan 2024 18:59:42 -0600) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:315416 Archived-At: > Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2024 18:59:42 -0600 > From: Adam Porter > > I'd like to add a new package to ELPA, activities.el. It's hosted at: > > https://github.com/alphapapa/activities.el > > Here's the description; please see the readme/manual for more details. > > Inspired by Genera's and KDE's concepts of "activities", this library > allows the user to select an "activity", the loading of which restores a > window configuration and/or frameset, along with the buffers shown in > each window. Saving an activity saves the state for later restoration. > Switching away from an activity saves the last-used state for later > switching back to, while still allowing the activity's initial or > default state to be restored on demand. Resuming an activity loads the > last-used state, or the initial/default state when a universal argument > is provided. >From the user-facing POV, how is this different from desktop.el's ability to save/restore Emacs sessions to/from separate desktop files? Thanks.