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alphapapa / burly.el

Save and restore frames and windows with their buffers in Emacs
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Question: Relationship with `desktop-save` and `desktop-read` #11

Closed rajivr closed 3 years ago

rajivr commented 3 years ago

Hi @alphapapa

I currently use desktop-save and desktop-read in order to save and restore frames when I have to restart emacs.

I was wondering if blury.el does something similar?

I've just started exploring org-ql. Thanks for that.

alphapapa commented 3 years ago

Hi,

I was wondering if blury.el does something similar?

I don't know what blury.el does. ;) As for burly, I've tried to explain what it does in the readme. Please let me know if it seems to be missing information or is hard to follow, or if you have more specific questions that aren't addressed in it.

I've just started exploring org-ql. Thanks for that.

Thanks. Please let me know if you have any feedback.

rajivr commented 3 years ago

Hi,

I don't know what blury.el does. ;) As for burly, I've tried to explain what it does in the readme. Please let me know if it seems to be missing information or is hard to follow, or if you have more specific questions that aren't addressed in it.

Thanks for the kind nudge to checkout the readme. I missed the sentence - "In terms of built-in features, Burly may be seen as integrating the built-in libraries bookmark.el and frameset.el, while also replacing and improving on some of the functionality of desktop.el."

I think if this sentence had come after in the first paragraph, before talking about the internals, that would have been slightly better for me.

I'll give definitely give burly.el a try very soon, and will also use the opportunity to understand Emacs' bookmark.el and frameset.el libraries.

Thanks again!

alphapapa commented 3 years ago

I think if this sentence had come after in the first paragraph, before talking about the internals, that would have been slightly better for me.

Yeah, I originally had it in the first paragraph, but I moved it to the end of the intro. I want Burly to be interpreted primary on its own terms. And I don't want to give the impression that Burly actually uses desktop.el or actually replaces parts of it. I should probably rewrite that sentence.

alphapapa commented 3 years ago

I decided to remove mention of desktop.el from the docs. I think that was more likely to confuse than help users.