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* Table of Contents                                         :TOC_4_org:noexport:
 - [[Description][Description]]
 - [[Install][Install]]
   - [[Layer][Layer]]
   - [[Removing additional help][Removing additional help]]
 - [[Key bindings][Key bindings]]

* Description
This layer adds [[https://i3wm.org/][i3wm]] like workspaces thanks to the [[https://github.com/wasamasa/eyebrowse][eyebrowse]] package.

Once the layer is activated a new number is added to the left side of the
mode-line. This number corresponds to the currently active workspace number.

At startup, the workspace number 1 is active. Switching to a workspace will
create it if it does not exist. For instance at startup you can press
~SPC l w 2~ to create the workspace 2.

The key bindings are registered in a transient-state displayed in the minibuffer.
The docstring of the transient-state displays the existing workspaces and the
currently active workspace has square brackets. Since this is a transient-state it
is possible to just preview a workspace, for instance press ~SPC l w 2~ to see
what's on the workspace 2 then press ~TAB~ to go back to the previously
activated workspace.

It is also possible to give a label to a the current workspace by pressing
~r~ in the transient-state.

* Install
** Layer
To use this configuration layer, add it to your =~/.spacemacs=. You will need to
add =eyebrowse= to the existing =dotspacemacs-configuration-layers= list in this
file.

** Removing additional help
Once you know the key bindings to navigate between the workspaces you
may want to disable the exhaustive help in the workspace transient-state.
Set the variable =eyebrowse-display-help= to =nil=

#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
  (setq-default dotspacemacs-configuration-layers
    '((eyebrowse :variables eyebrowse-display-help nil)))
#+END_SRC

* Key bindings

| Key Binding                               | Description                        |
|-------------------------------------------+------------------------------------|
| ~gt~                                      | go to next workspace               |
| ~gT~                                      | got to previous workspace          |
| ~SPC l w 1~                               | create or switch to workspace 1    |
| ~SPC l w 2~                               | create or switch to workspace 2    |
| ~SPC l w 3~                               | create or switch to workspace 3    |
| ~SPC l w 4~                               | create or switch to workspace 4    |
| ~SPC l w 5~                               | create or switch to workspace 5    |
| ~SPC l w 6~                               | create or switch to workspace 6    |
| ~SPC l w 7~                               | create or switch to workspace 7    |
| ~SPC l w 8~                               | create or switch to workspace 8    |
| ~SPC l w 9~                               | create or switch to workspace 9    |
| ~SPC l w 0~                               | create or switch to workspace 0    |
| ~SPC l w TAB~                             | switch to last active workspace    |
| ~SPC l w c~                               | close current workspace            |
| ~SPC l w n~ or ~SPC l w l~                | switch to next workspace           |
| ~SPC l w N~ or ~SPC l w p~ or ~SPC l w h~ | switch to previous workspace       |
| ~SPC l w r~                               | set a tag to the current workspace |
| ~SPC l w w~                               | switched to tagged workspace       |