From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Philipp Haselwarter Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to save Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2011 19:41:45 +0100 Message-ID: <87y5vprvdi.fsf@nzebook.haselwarter.org> References: <9E5376E1-BA0E-4E4C-8FD0-DFE7BECC6DB2@math.ethz.ch> <87wrbdw9rm.wl%lists@groll.co.za> <4EB779C1.70201@easy-emacs.de> <59F5D9A6-17F4-41FF-995F-49642B5B6732@math.ethz.ch> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1320864140 14221 80.91.229.12 (9 Nov 2011 18:42:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 18:42:20 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 09 19:42:16 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ROD6E-0007vi-E8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Nov 2011 19:42:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48444 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ROD6E-00064e-0Q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Nov 2011 13:42:14 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:45968) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ROD68-00064K-Uq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Nov 2011 13:42:09 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ROD66-00051y-Uu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Nov 2011 13:42:08 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:60290) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ROD66-00051e-HN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Nov 2011 13:42:06 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ROD61-0007s5-Rx for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Nov 2011 19:42:01 +0100 Original-Received: from 188.86.114.78.rev.sfr.net ([78.114.86.188]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 09 Nov 2011 19:42:01 +0100 Original-Received: from philipp.haselwarter by 188.86.114.78.rev.sfr.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 09 Nov 2011 19:42:01 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 188.86.114.78.rev.sfr.net X-NSA-Fodder: Freeh unclassified InfoSec MP5K-SD Medco Vickie Weaver enigma X-Windows: big enough to hurt. User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.91 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:jG/wY0athyuUxrXNomxbRdURCfM= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:82830 Archived-At: 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