Ever created windows splits in Emacs, say two vertical with code and one large horizontal beneath with compilation output, and then having it ruined when firing off a command or starting a mode?
I had this for years, mitigating it with winner-mode and
winner-undo. It allowed me to navigate back and forth between my
different window split setups. However, it was a bit tedious and
didn't always work (some modes grabbed my shortcut).
I then started storing the window splits in Emacs registers: 1) split
the windows the way you want them 2) store it with C-x r w RET 1 and
then jump back to it with C-x r j RET 1. The only problem was they
didn't persist between session.
Finally, I read up on workgroup2 and have finally gotten stable,
persistent window split configuration. What's more, it allows me to
store different splits and buffer contents for my different contexts,
e.g. I have:
- user-manager # 2 vertical code buffers, horizontal compilation buffer
- user-manager-wide # 4 vertical code buffers, compile, vterm
- zipline # 2 python buffers, python REPL, vterm
And so on. Creating a split is done with wg-create-workgroup RET
<name> and opening a split is done with wg-open-workgroup RET
<name>.
Highly recommended.
