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

[Alan Davis]

Ihor:

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.

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.  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.  I would like to replace the viewers in my dired setup.
Also I was not able to find a cogent explanation of the use of multiple
characters are marks/tags in dired. Is there a package that implements that
better?   I have not found dired-ranger or ranger-dired to be comfortable;
maybe I am missing something.  Unfortunately with Ranger, I slip into my
muscle memory of emacs bindings from time to time.  I also have had to use
a separate trash system that is weird.

Alan

On Fri, Oct 21, 2022 at 4:23 AM Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> wrote:

> Alan Davis <alan3davis@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > A few years ago, I obtained an iMac, and encountered what I remember as
> > "virtual folders."  I may be imagining things, as I cannot seem to find
> > good information about it.  Someone mentioned finder on the mac.  This
> is a
> > truly interesting tool.  I think there are solutions for GNU/Linux;
> > however, most of them seem to take time to learn and set up, if I
> > understand the lay of the land.  What I THINK (or perhaps hope) that
> > virtual folders can do is to provide a ROBUST way of sorting files into
> > meaningful buckets without actually having to move the file, making it
> > possible for several virtual folders to include one particular  file.
>
> Emacs also supports "virtual folders" using dired + bookmarks.
>
> In dired, apart from usual file system navigation, you can display
> arbitrary sets of files. See 30.16 Dired and ‘find’ section of the Emacs
> manual.
>
> Once you have dired buffer, you can bookmarks it for future (even
> between Emacs sessions) using M-x bookmark-set. Then, you can jump to
> the saved bookmarks with M-x bookmark-jump.
>
> The functionality can further be extended using dired+ and bookmark+
> packages. See https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/BookmarkPlus#h5o-36
>
> --
> Ihor Radchenko // yantar92,
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