Re: Friendlier dired experience [CODE INCLUDED]

[Adam Porter]

Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> writes:

> * Adam Porter <adam@alphapapa.net> [2020-11-05 19:26]:
>> 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).
>
> 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.