Generalizes sorting of perspectives and adds sort-by-creation-time. #87
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This is valuable to me because I often use perspectives during yak shaves and other multi-project tasks where I need to "push" and "pop" things to work on. By sorting by persp-time-created, this simulates that perfectly: + While working on a task, find a tangent I need to go off on. + Create a new perspective. + Work on tangent. Possibly going back and forth between multiple perspectives. + When done with tangent, kill the perspective, going back to next-most-recent. This switches from `persp-sort-chronologically` (bool) to `persp-sort` (symbol). There might be some smoother way to honor the old value and auto-convert to the new variable, but I don't know how. This also adds `created-time` to the perspective struct. Loading this code in your current emacs breaks everything. I don't know if it is possible to migrate existing structs or otherwise patch this code to work with old structs. Restarting emacs seems fine but I'm open to suggestion.
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I'm not thrilled with the way The gist: Let's say you're using this mode to do a yak shave and you have several perspectives pushed on the stack. You finish up some of them and start to kill the perspectives. The first time, it uses |
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This is nice. I updated #80 to respect perspective order on save and restore.
I'm not too concerned about breaking existing Emacs sessions when this update loads. Elisp doesn't support update-instance-for-redefined-class, so there isn't much we can reasonably do.
In the future, we can just recommend that people use persp-state-save before upgrading perspective-el.
does that have some sort of migration strategy or is it just flexible enough that it just fills in the blanks for fields that aren't there? |
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Merging... Actually... no. I prefer rebase merges. I'll start a dialog in our #92 discussion. |
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fuck it. 😛 |
This is valuable to me because I often use perspectives during yak
shaves and other multi-project tasks where I need to "push" and "pop"
things to work on. By sorting by persp-time-created, this simulates
that perfectly:
This switches from
persp-sort-chronologically(bool) topersp-sort(symbol). There might be some smoother way to honor theold value and auto-convert to the new variable, but I don't know how.
This also adds
created-timeto the perspective struct. Loading thiscode in your current emacs breaks everything. I don't know if it is
possible to migrate existing structs or otherwise patch this code to
work with old structs. Restarting emacs seems fine but I'm open to
suggestion.