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[ELPA] New package: activities
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Adam Porter |
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[ELPA] New package: activities |
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Thu, 25 Jan 2024 18:59:42 -0600 |
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Hi,
I'd like to add a new package to ELPA, activities.el. It's hosted at:
https://github.com/alphapapa/activities.el
Here's the description; please see the readme/manual for more details.
Inspired by Genera's and KDE's concepts of "activities", this library
allows the user to select an "activity", the loading of which restores a
window configuration and/or frameset, along with the buffers shown in
each window. Saving an activity saves the state for later restoration.
Switching away from an activity saves the last-used state for later
switching back to, while still allowing the activity's initial or
default state to be restored on demand. Resuming an activity loads the
last-used state, or the initial/default state when a universal argument
is provided.
The implementation uses the bookmark system to save buffers'
states–that is, any major mode that supports the bookmark system is
compatible. A buffer whose major mode does not support the bookmark
system (or does not support it well enough to restore useful state) is
not compatible and can't be fully restored, or perhaps not at all; but
solving that is as simple as implementing bookmark support for the mode,
which is usually trivial.
Integration with Emacs's `tab-bar-mode' is provided: a window
configuration or frameset can be restored to a window or set of frames,
or to a tab or set of tabs.
Various hooks are (or will be–feedback is welcome) provided, both
globally and per-activity, so that the user can define functions to be
called when an activity is saved, restored, or switched from/to. For
example, this could be used to limit the set of buffers offered for
switching to within an activity, or to track the time spent in an activity.
Please see the attached patch to elpa-packages.
Thanks,
Adam
0001-elpa-packages-activities-New-package.patch
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Re: [ELPA] New package: activities, Eli Zaretskii, 2024/01/26