RE: Grouping related buffers

[Corey Foote]

I actually don't think it would be too difficult to write something like this. It would involved modifying a few functions, and giving each buffer a variable which would identify it with one of the groups. I'm in the process of learning emacs lisp right now, but an no where near experienced enough to make a customization like this!

By the way, does anybody have any recommendations on the best way to learn emacs lisp? I've got two books... the emacs lisp manual and an old O'Reilly book called Writing GNU Emacs Extensions by Bob Glickstein. It would be cool if there were a course I could take in programming this stuff... :-)

> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> From: tassilo@member.fsf.org
> Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:43:07 +0100
> Subject: Re: Grouping related buffers
>
> Corey Foote <coreyfoote@hotmail.com> writes:
>
> Hi Corey!
>
> > I was wondering if there was a way to group related buffers in Emacs
> > through the use of, say, multiple buffer workspaces.
>
> There's desktop-save-mode which can be used therefore. See
>
> (info "(emacs)Saving Emacs Sessions")
>
> for details. It's not exactly like the grouping you'd like to have,
> because there's only one open workspace at a time and switching
> workspaces involves closing all files/buffers of the current one and
> loading the new ones. So quickly jumping between buffers of different
> workspaces is not possible.
>
> So many people open one emacs instance per workspace, which has other
> drawbacks of course.
>
> Hope that helps,
> Tassilo
>
>
>

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