persp-mode.el VS bufler.el

I'm just switching to emacs (a noob). As far as I understood, doom uses " persp-mode.el " package instead of emacs built-in tab-mode. In order to reorder the tabs, tab-mode has tab-move and vim has tabmove. How can we do the same for doom?

I assume that it's the workspaces module in Doom Emacs which is powered by persp-mode.el.

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’ll also add that along with project.el/projectile persp-mode can be configured to work as you desire. persp-mode allows you to create different perspectives (or groups) of buffers. I usually have a few different perspectives and a project open in each of them.

You could try perspective or persp-mode

Doom achieves this via persp-mode.

The workspaces module in Doom uses persp-mode.

Built-in elisp -- are there libraries in emacs that could be extended? Here are two ideas: project.el is a great start but is lacking in some ways, especially as compared to an external library like projectile.el. Could you write up something to extend project.el's functionality by comparison? Similarly, tab-bar-mode is great, but one thing it is missing is a way to group buffers by tab, as something like persp-mode does. Could you write something that would extend this functionality to cover that case?

No problem, I know that time is limited. There have already been a couple of issues filed about TRAMP, e.g. https://github.com/alphapapa/bufler.el/issues/63 If you last tried Bufler before those issues were filed, maybe give it another try; otherwise, please do chime in on that one when you get a chance.

The package I've written that provides tools for grouping buffers into something like "workspaces" would be Bufler: https://github.com/alphapapa/bufler.el See bufler-workspace-mode. It has many more features which are described in its readme.

What are you trying to convince me about? :D :D :D. To start with I recommended to you to use ibuffer, and I can recommend you even to check up Bufler if you are heavy ibuffer user.

Bufler has a lot of options in how to group buffers: https://github.com/alphapapa/bufler.el

Others have mentioned the awesome projectile, but I think it should be said that Emacs now has built in project.el which has come in leaps and bounds (though probably still lacks some projectile features).

I use project.el alongside consult[1] which has many convenient wrapper functions over built-in ones, like an enhanced `switch-to-buffer` with project support. I am actually using an even tighter integration called consult-project-extra[2].

The most advanced and overkill solution would probably be to use bufler.el[3] which basically allows you to define your custom logic for buffer grouping.

[1] https://github.com/minad/consult

[2] https://github.com/Qkessler/consult-project-extra

[3] https://github.com/alphapapa/bufler.el

It's not designed to work that way, but it's theoretically possible. Especially, when I refactor parts of Bufler to use Taxy, it will be easy to make certain grouping keys non-consuming. See https://github.com/alphapapa/bufler.el/issues/69

Regarding the buffer-switching part of this package, you might look at https://github.com/alphapapa/bufler.el and consider how you could implement it through Bufler.

See also https://github.com/alphapapa/bufler.el Its readme also links to related projects.