From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Adam Porter Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Friendlier dired experience [CODE INCLUDED] Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2020 12:56:30 -0600 Message-ID: <87ft5nws2p.fsf@alphapapa.net> References: <20201103104340.q34kqfita55w2u7h@E15-2016.optimum.net> <20201104183228.xf7w4yf3fw3427y5@E15-2016.optimum.net> <20201105092232.fk4r5dexnay3eyln@E15-2016.optimum.net> <20201105143800.7vt5jfr4gg2wigyb@E15-2016.optimum.net> <87k0uzwz1v.fsf@alphapapa.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="39197"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 05 19:57:25 2020 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 1kakRp-000A51-4T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2020 19:57:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36240 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kakRo-0007W8-7M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2020 13:57:24 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:50964) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kakR0-00073T-K3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2020 13:56:34 -0500 Original-Received: from static.214.254.202.116.clients.your-server.de ([116.202.254.214]:56828 helo=ciao.gmane.io) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kakQy-0004qa-VD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2020 13:56:34 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kakQv-0008pi-FD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2020 19:56:29 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/11/05 08:51:10 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: -15 X-Spam_score: -1.6 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:258751 Archived-At: Jean Louis writes: > * Adam Porter [2020-11-05 19:26]: >> Arthur Miller writes: >> >> > Just let us serialize the state of windows to the disk and re-open it >> > on demand. Thus I could create my own layout inclusive with buffers >> > and save it as "workspace" to be used with diredc. Thus two-pane >> > workspace could be "bookmarked" with some specific locations on hard >> > drive. Three-pane workspace could be bookmarked for some other >> > use-case etc. >> >> FYI, my new package, Burly, works this way: it bookmarks window/frame >> configurations and restores them, including their buffers, by using the >> bookmarks library to restore each buffer before restoring the >> frame/window configuration. All that's necessary is for a buffer's >> major mode to define a bookmark-make-record-function and a bookmark >> handler function (as many major modes already do). > > Very nice. Good in itself, I just cannot switch from Hyperbole to > Burly as Hyperbole has essentially that what you described. Only it > does not save configurations over sessions. I can add various named > window or frame configurations, or not named, I can then go into them > by name quickly or restore everything to where I was. > > I do appreciate influx of new Emacs Packages. Yet it would be useful > if programmer would look into what is already available or widely > used. > > Check out GNU Hyperbole! You may be interested to know that RSW has contributed to Burly and has expressed interest in adding support for Burly to Hyperbole.