Workgroups for Emacs

What is it?

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 workspaces

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

Use

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    - create workgroup
<prefix> A    - rename workgroup
<prefix> k    - kill workgroup
<prefix> v    - switch to workgroup
<prefix> C-s  - save session
<prefix> C-f  - load session

Configure

If you want to change some settings - here is an example:

(require 'workgroups2)
;; Your settings here

;; autoload/autosave:
;; if you start Emacs as "emacs --daemon" - turn off autoloading of workgroups:
;;(setq wg-use-default-session-file nil)

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

;; Change workgroups session file
(setq wg-default-session-file "~/.emacs.d/.emacs_workgroups")

;; Set your own keyboard shortcuts to reload/save/switch WG:
(global-set-key (kbd "<pause>")     'wg-reload-session)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-S-<pause>") 'wg-save-session)
(global-set-key (kbd "s-z")         'wg-switch-to-workgroup)
(global-set-key (kbd "s-/")         'wg-switch-to-previous-workgroup)

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

Help

Type <prefix> ? (Eval (wg-help)) for more help.

This will bring up a help buffer listing all the commands and their bindings.

See the customization section in the source for details, or use:

M-x customize-group RET workgroups RET

Original Workgroups

There is a package on Melpa called "workgroups". This extension is based on experimental branch of the original repo.

So great respect to the author. But it has not been updated for more than 2 years and experimental branch was not released.

License

Workgroups for Emacs is released under the GPL.