dotemacs VS perspective-el

Here's my mu4e setup

7 - Meow: Meow is great. I switched from evil a few months ago and am pretty happy with it. I also dropped general.el for bind-key.el, which is included with use-package (which I see you are using anyway). You can look at my setup of meow here and a more generic setup of keybindings here. I haven't had any trouble with using this instead of general.

One thought is to limit which parts of the org-cite libraries to load. I had similar issues with speed. You can look at my current setup in my dotfiles here. I just use oc and oc-csl, along with citar (no org-ref) and everything works pretty well.

Here’s the link: https://github.com/mclear-tools/dotemacs

Another thing you might consider (this depends on how many tabs you usually keep open, etc.) is not displaying tabs in the tab-bar at all (setq tab-bar-show nil) and displaying them in the echo-area instead. I use a combination of https://github.com/fritzgrabo/tab-bar-echo-area and https://github.com/qaiviq/echo-bar.el to give a consistent but very unobtrusive presentation of the tabs in the echo bar on the bottom right. You can see that in this image -- and my config for it is here.

Yes. It’s not a problem (it’s also easy to write papers in markdown using markdown mode). If you want to see some of the packages involved look at my setup-writing.el file in my config.

If you just want folding then you can use emacs' built-in outline mode. And there are very easy ways to jump around a "modular" or multi-file config as well. I use both of these tools in my own config. I also like that I can easily load just small parts of my config via command line args, and of course that I don't need to worry about bootstrapping org-mode to get things running.

You can take a look atmy setup and see if any of it looks helpful. The relevant modules for you will be:

Yeah +1 for perspective.el. I use it with projectile to manage projects and have discrete buffers for different projects. You can look at my setup if it is helpful here.

I opened a ticket https://github.com/nex3/perspective-el/issues/198 but can’t promise to get around to it soon.

I have tried to get this behaviour for a while. The closest I have gotten is using perspective.el, but it ended up being a bit clunky when I tried it like 4 years ago and now I just used bookmark+ which can save/load desktop files as bookmarks.

perspective for named workspaces.

persp-mode?

To scratch a personal itch, I created a little package that integrates perspective-el into the built-in tab-bar.

But I'm rethinking about my approach, as tab-bar-mode would give me nice visual help (#3), and it seems difficult to recover a perspective using perspective, and persp-mode may be a better fit in that sense (#4). The Treemacs integration isn't working for me either, and I get the same list of file trees for all perspectives -- I'm pretty sure I'm doing something stupid, but this was handled nicely with Doom Emacs's workspace support (#5). But perspective seems to work best for segregated buffer list (#1).

I think perspective.el is about what I’m looking for. If you had a list of org-ids, theses could be brought up in indirect buffers, and then those buffers added to the perspective group.

As for why this broke: this change went into Perspective a few weeks after Emacs 28 shipped. You either updated your packages recently after not updating for a while, or you switched to Emacs 28 (or later). Full discussion surrounding this change: https://github.com/nex3/perspective-el/issues/180

It sounds a bit like you want „perspective.el“ (1). It allows you to define „virtual workspaces“ of buffers with individual window layouts. On each virtual desktop the standard buffer list is replaced with a shorter showing only buffers belonging to the current context. I use it every day to keep „code“ buffers separate from my „test“ buffers.

(1) https://github.com/nex3/perspective-el