Add ability to open/resume project layout by emacs /path/to/project/

[a13ph]

💬 March 10, 2016 12:31 AM

what sublime/atom do if you use subl . or atom . They open up the project in the current dir in a new frame with all the tabs/splits restored

suggested by @calebmeyer and @aaronkavlie-wf

[syl20bnr]

For people wanting to give this a try, Spacemacs provides the building blocks to do this with layouts which can be saved and restored manually.

[calebmeyer]

Note that in subl/atom terminology, you have a window (emacs frame) which contains tabs (roughly emacs buffers) and splits (which sort tabs into roughly emacs windows). So I misspoke when I called them frames in those two.

However, this is a pretty common ask for editors (see for example Tim Pope's vim-obsession). My personal use case:
I have a number of projects (in folders, usually version controlled) which I can switch to with projectile (on SPC p h). When I open a project via projectile (or the command line emacs . in the folder), I'd like to have all of the above restored automatically.

[syl20bnr]

A first step would be to be able to identify layouts with an associated project. A simple way to do this would be to add a prefix to be name of the project layouts, could be a tilde for instance.
The we add some hooks to save the layouts.
In the end we add a key binding/action/universal prefix/prompt/dotfile variable to enable this behaviour.

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