spacemacs/contrib/perspectives

Perspectives

This contrib layer sets up perspective-mode. And also defines custom perspectives with a macro so that you don't have to do more steps.

Custom Perspective Macro

If you want to add a new custom-persp (for example if you want to have IRC on its own perspective or maybe calendar or gnus) you have to use the macro custom-persp as follows:

      (defun custom-persp/<persp-function-name> ()
        (interactive)
        (custom-persp "<name-to-be-shown-in-the-modeline>"
            (... stuff to be done in the persp activating a major mode like twittering or whatever ...)))

Then you just need to add a keybinding to your custom persp, we use <SPC> P o [your key here] (Perspective open )

        (evil-leader/set-key "Po<your key here>" 'custom-persp/<persp-function-name>))

Keybindings

Perspective-mode defines keybindings under C-x x so we will take a more spacemacsy approach and define them under out perspective map <SPC> P

Persp-Projectile

As the name suggests, this persp-projectile mode creates a new perspective once you switch to a new project with <SPC> p s you can enable it by putting (require 'persp-projectile) in your configuration files.

If you are a helm person, and would rather use helm for projectile add this to your config as well:

(projectile-persp-bridge helm-projectile)
(setq projectile-switch-project-action 'helm-projectile)