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Re: Friendlier dired experience [CODE INCLUDED]


From: Arthur Miller
Subject: Re: Friendlier dired experience [CODE INCLUDED]
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2020 17:47:08 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Adam Porter <adam@alphapapa.net> writes:

> Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com> 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).
>
> It already works with, e.g. file-backed text buffers, Dired buffers,
> magit-status buffers, Help and Info buffers, etc.
Super; I'll give it a try some time; thanks!

> https://github.com/alphapapa/burly.el



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