Re: [emacs-humanities] Emacs "Projects" management?

[Ihor Radchenko]

Alan Davis <alan3davis@gmail.com> writes:

> Thank you for clarifying this.  I will give this a try.  My greatest fear
> is that a set of such folders would be lost during an update, or after
> reinstalling my OS.

Don't worry. They are all saved in a file defined by `bookmark-file'
(variable). You can just back it up or change to `bookmark-file' to
point to your synced backup folder.

> I should mention my experience with Ranger, which I use without reference
> to Vi keybindings, since those don't work for me.  However, the speed for
> sorting files is peerless, so far.  One aspect I have used in the past, but
> lost touch with is tagging/marking files with single letter marks.

Might be relevant: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/BookmarkPlus#TaggingFiles


> I would like to duplicate the functionality of ranger in dired; most
> of it is there, but ranger, as it comes packaged on Manjaro and Arch
> Linux, is set up for viewing pdfs and jpegs almost instantly, where
> the defaults for dired are slower.

For pdfs, I suggest pdf-tools. It is faster.
Images might be slower in Emacs (especially, large images). Though more
recent Emacs versions should work better.

> I also have had to use a separate trash
> system that is weird.

See delete-by-moving-to-trash. When non-nil, it should default to system
trash.

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