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akirak / frame-workflow

Frame-oriented workflow management for Emacs
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assign existing workspaces to subjects? #8

Closed rdiaz02 closed 5 years ago

rdiaz02 commented 5 years ago

Thanks for frame-workflow! I cannot find a way to assign existing workspaces to subjects. With frame-workflow-make-frame and frame-workflow-switch-frame I can create new ones but I would like to assign existing ones to new names (similar to Xmonad's idea of renaming workspaces or exwm-nw-set in https://github.com/pjones/exwm-nw). Is this possible?

akirak commented 5 years ago

It is basically possible but comes with some limitation. Especially, :make-frame option of the new subject will not apply to such a frame. If you use integration with frame-purpose, existing frames won't have the purposes of the new subjects. If it is what you want, I will add the feature you requested.

To address this issue, I added a command to replace an existing frame --- create a new frame with a subject and deletes the original frame. It is available as frame-workflow-replace-frame in recent commits. This is not a perfect solution, though. The layout of the original frame is not retained, and the window configuration history of the original frame is lost.

rdiaz02 commented 5 years ago

Thanks a lot! Please, no, do not write the code just for me. I now see that using frame-workflow-replace-frame should fit my needs, since losing the layout and configuration is not a big problem; I basically wanted this to be able to assign names to workspaces, instead of just using numbers, and sometimes I realize that I want to name it after the workspace is already created and populated by frames and X windows. Thanks again.