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wasamasa / eyebrowse

A simple-minded way of managing window configs in emacs
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Can I save my eyebrowse layouts in a more permanent fashion? #90

Closed alienbogart closed 6 years ago

alienbogart commented 6 years ago

I was using desktop-save, but Emacs mess it up from time to time.

wasamasa commented 6 years ago

Saving window configurations is deliberately not part of this package. If desktop.el doesn't work for you, find something else (and don't forget reporting about how it went).

alienbogart commented 6 years ago

I didn't understand your response previously, so I'm answering it again to clarify. desktop-save works most of the time, but it eventually messes up, and I'd really like to keep all my layouts with their custom names that I made for them. I totally understand that this is not the focus of eyebrowse. I'll look into other solutions and report back. desktop-plus seems interesting. Thanks!

alienbogart commented 6 years ago

I couldn't find a package that did what I wanted, so I created an eyebrowse directory to backup my layouts, and a bash alias to easily overwrite the emacs desktop files whenever it messes up. In the future, I can embed this restore functionality on Emacs itself.

alienbogart commented 6 years ago

Okay! bookmark+ have a helpful command that saves a copy of the desktop and binds it to bookmark: bmkp-set-desktop-bookmark. It's annoying that Emacs starts saving the desktop in the new file, which misses the point in my opinion. But that can be customized.