From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Terrence Brannon Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: tree-style bookmarks for Emacs? Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 06:28:59 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <425a5608-d764-42f8-b0bf-30c577b145b5@d8g2000yqf.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291851797 12597 80.91.229.12 (8 Dec 2010 23:43:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 23:43:17 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 09 00:43:10 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQTfC-00015a-DS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 00:43:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55654 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQTTd-0003mg-Dg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 18:31:13 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!d8g2000yqf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 13 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 208.55.254.110 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1278941342 17431 127.0.0.1 (12 Jul 2010 13:29:02 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:29:02 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: d8g2000yqf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=208.55.254.110; posting-account=GDJYuQoAAACvR3VU3OOyv8hdViWomHUu User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3,gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:179705 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:76221 Archived-At: There is an excellent Firefox add-on called [Tree Style Tabs](https:// addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5890/) I have a desire for similar functionality in Emacs, so that I keep a folder of bookmarks and when I open that folder, all the files that are pointed to by that folder open in a tree, as shown in this mocked- up screenshot: http://www.screencast.com/users/terrence_work/folders/Jing/media/d550ae5f-e279-4468-8d1d-00c5c75bc77d In a sense, the ecb history buffer allows tree-based selection of files, but the parent of the tree of files, it based on a directory, not based on a folder that I choose to organize a set of files into.