Re: Tags in Emacs.

[Dmitrii Kashin <freehck@gmail.com>]

William Gardella <gardellawg@gmail.com>
writes:

> Dmitrii Kashin <freehck@gmail.com> 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

It is the thing I searched. I did not truely know about builtin
functions, but now I've just discovered emacs user manual following to
link on emacswiki due to your links. That's great! I will be reading it
a lot in the near future.

Thank you! :)

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