tabspaces VS project-tab-groups

tabspaces, the package that leverage vanilla emacs as much as possible by using tab-bar-mode and project.el added session/tabspace restoration somewhat recently and it works pretty well.

However, it seemed that the buffer save/restore was misbehaving. I created 2 PRs (one for save, one for restore) -- would you be able to have a look?

Hi all. I am using tabspaces: https://github.com/mclear-tools/tabspaces

I tend to use a single emacs instance and single frame with multiple tabs as workspaces using tabspaces (I'm the maintainer). That lets you group buffers by tab (which means by window configuration), and there is an option to connect tabs with specific "projects", as understood by the built-in project.el. I tend to have a tab for my agenda, another for email, and then tabs for whatever projects I'm working on. I've been doing this for a couple years and it works pretty well for me but YMMV.

Sounds good, I'm going to try it. You might want to add https://github.com/fritzgrabo/project-tab-groups to the related package section of the readme.

I enjoy using https://github.com/fritzgrabo/project-tab-groups which also integrates project.el and tab-bar.el

A combination of these two will probably be super interesting: 1. project-tab-groups 2. tab-bar-echo-area.

I might be wrong, but it sounds like you're on Emacs 27. If you can, check out Emacs 28 (or newer). In addition to the existing tab-bar-move-tab (move tab right), it also provides a bindable tab-bar-move-tab-backward command to move a tab left. Emacs 28 also introduces the concept of "tab groups" and a way to keep all tabs but those of the currently active group hidden (see tab-bar-format, and specifically its tab-bar-format-tabs-groups option). It'll still show the names of the other, inactive tab groups, but at least it doesn't show all their contained tabs. You might be able to hide inactive groups altogether using face properties. Regarding the integration with workgroup packages and jumping between groups of tabs: I had a similar issue regarding the integration of the tab bar and Emacs' project.el package (a project could be considered a workgroup I guess), so I wrote the project-tab-groups package to help with that. The elisp is rather simple, you might be able to take inspiration from it and rework it for use with workgroups/perspective/etc. In case you can't upgrade to Emacs 28, you might want to check out the tab-bar-lost-commands package to help with bindable commands for moving tabs forward and backward (and some other goodies).

You might want to check out https://github.com/fritzgrabo/project-tab-groups. It provides a simple (but still) integration of tab-bar-mode and project.el.