Workgroups for Emacs

Workgroups is a session manager for Emacs.

It saves all your opened buffers, their location and sizes on disk to restore later
You can create several work groups

You can also restore such buffers as: org-agenda, shell, magit-status, help.

Fork it, add more special buffers support. Or even better - fix bugs.

Install

Just install “workgroups2” from Melpa and activate it with

(require 'workgroups2)

Usage

Quick Start

Use M-x wg-create-workgroup to save save window&buffer layout as a work group.

Use M-x wg-open-workgroup to open an existing work group.

Use M-x wg-kill-workgroup to delete an existing work group.

Enable minor mode `workgroups-mode` (OPTIONAL)

Put below line at the bottom of .emacs,

(workgroups-mode 1)

Most commands are bound to both <prefix> <key> and <prefix> C-<key>.

By default prefix is: “C-c z” (To change it - see settings below)

<prefix> <key>
<prefix> C-c    - create a new workgroup
<prefix> C-v    - open an existing workgroup
<prefix> C-k    - delete an existing workgroup

If you want to set up this minor mode further:

(require 'workgroups2)
;; Change prefix key (before activating WG)
(setq wg-prefix-key "C-c z")

(workgroups-mode 1)   ; put this one at the bottom of .emacs

Tips (OPTIONAL)

Change workgroups session file

Use below code

(setq wg-session-file "~/.emacs.d/.emacs_workgroups")

Support special buffer

Here is minimum sample code to support ivy-occur-grep-mode,

(with-eval-after-load 'workgroups2
  ;; provide major mode, package to require, and functions
  (wg-support 'ivy-occur-grep-mode 'ivy
              `((serialize . ,(lambda (_buffer)
                                (list (base64-encode-string (buffer-string) t))))
                (deserialize . ,(lambda (buffer _vars)
                                  (switch-to-buffer (wg-buf-name buffer))
                                  (insert (base64-decode-string (nth 0 _vars)))
                                  ;; easier than `ivy-occur-grep-mode' to set up
                                  (grep-mode)
                                  ;; need return current buffer at the end of function
                                  (current-buffer))))))

License

workgroups2 is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

workgroups2 is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

This extension is based on experimental branch of the original repo.

simonmichael/workgroups2