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From: Philipp Haselwarter <philipp.haselwarter@gmx.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to save
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2011 19:41:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y5vprvdi.fsf@nzebook.haselwarter.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: D7499494-5E4F-40D3-87E1-6B955118679E@math.ethz.ch

from the TODO file (C-h C-t):
> * Important features:
> ...
> ** "Perspectives" are named persistent window configurations

The idea has been around a while, and emacs already knows how to do a
lot of what would be required to provide functionality similar to that
of all the window/workspace managers out there:
`window-configuration-to-register' actually provides most of what one
could wish for, except there's no way to save a "window configuration"
persistently.
(iirc this is actually one of the motivations named by the workgroup
author: window configuration can't be serialized in elisp (?))

Personally I use workgroups, which lets me define persistent named
workspaces each with its own window configuration.

It's a bit sad to see how many people have tried solving this problem
but no solution made it to core emacs. The issue does seem to be shared
by many.

-- 
Philipp Haselwarter




      reply	other threads:[~2011-11-09 18:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-05 23:10 How to save Marius Hofert
2011-11-06 15:28 ` Jonathan Groll
2011-11-06 15:50   ` Marius Hofert
2011-11-06 21:37     ` Jonathan Groll
2011-11-07  1:24     ` Eric Abrahamsen
2011-11-07  6:25     ` Andreas Röhler
2011-11-07  6:38       ` Marius Hofert
2011-11-07 14:37         ` Drew Adams
2011-11-09  6:51           ` Marius Hofert
2011-11-09 18:41             ` Philipp Haselwarter [this message]

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