Mike Zamansky is back with the latest edition of Using Emacs. This time the video is about the eyebrowse package and how he uses it to easily switch between window configurations as he moves from task to task.
I’ve been curious about eyebrowse since I saw Grant’s short video about it over at Wisdom and Wonder. Grant’s video was more about developing a hydra to use with eyebrowse so I was happy to see Zamansky’s demonstration of it in action.
If you have a number of tasks—or task types—that you like to have a fixed window/buffer configuration for, eyebrowse may be just what you need. The one thing lacking, as Zamansky pointed out, is that there’s no way to save your window configurations across Emacs sessions. Even though I tend to run Emacs for weeks at a time, package upgrades or a system reboot occasionally mean I have to restart it.
It probably wouldn’t be that hard to add that functionality but I’ve only glanced at the code to verify there was no save function so I don’t know what would be involved.
As always with Zamansky’s videos, this one is well worth your time. It’s only 8 minutes so it should be easy to fit in.