From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/15873 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: William Gardella Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Tags in Emacs. Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2012 16:28:05 -0400 Message-ID: <87a9vyni22.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87a9vydvk5.fsf@ws00.freehck.ru> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1349641810 14285 80.91.229.3 (7 Oct 2012 20:30:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2012 20:30:10 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Sun Oct 07 22:30:17 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TKxUN-000098-BI for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Oct 2012 22:30:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47979 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TKxUG-0002hk-KQ for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Oct 2012 16:30:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:36772) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TKxUB-0002dL-NZ for info-gnus-english-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Oct 2012 16:30:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TKxU8-0006KC-Gs for info-gnus-english-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Oct 2012 16:30:01 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:50063) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TKxU8-0006K1-Al for info-gnus-english-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Oct 2012 16:30:00 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TKxUC-00006d-88 for info-gnus-english-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Oct 2012 22:30:04 +0200 Original-Received: from c-24-131-17-1.hsd1.pa.comcast.net ([24.131.17.1]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 07 Oct 2012 22:30:04 +0200 Original-Received: from gardellawg by c-24-131-17-1.hsd1.pa.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 07 Oct 2012 22:30:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet-dbVV3NMTNubNLxjTenLetw@public.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-24-131-17-1.hsd1.pa.comcast.net X-Archive: encrypt User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:iC5CP7JesYqGZTnMDtziUwL/WJA= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:15873 Archived-At: Dmitrii Kashin writes: > Hello. I am WMII user. This is a window manager wich have tags, > i.e. configuration of windows. In other words tag is an abstract thing, > which keeps in mind how to split workspace, and what program should be > shown in each part of it. > > I think it's very useful thing. I want the same in Emacs. Is there some > realizations of this functional? Sorry about that. As I was saying...I have enjoyed wmii in the past, and two add-on packages offering a similar functionality to wmii tags are `workgroups'[1] and `elscreen'[2]. These can offer rules-based configurations that persist across sessions, like wmii tags. Emacs also has builtin the `window-configuration-to-register' function, C-x r w, which you can restore with C-x r j. This is more for quick context changes, though, and it doesn't persist easily across sessions. [1] http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/WorkgroupsForWindows [2] http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsLispScreen -- I use grml (http://grml.org/)