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Eyebrowse contribution layer for Spacemacs

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Description

This layer adds i3wm like workspaces thanks to the eyebrowse package.

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

For now only numbers are supported for workspaces, it is not possible to set a label on them.

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 W 2 to create the workspace 2.

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

Install

Layer

To use this contribution add it to your ~/.spacemacs

(setq-default dotspacemacs-configuration-layers '(eyebrowse))

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 micro-state. Set the variable eyebrowse-display-help to nil

(setq-default dotspacemacs-configuration-layers
  '((eyebrowse :variables eyebrowse-display-help nil)))

Key bindings

Key Binding Description
SPC W 1 create or switch to workspace 1
SPC W 2 create or switch to workspace 2
SPC W 3 create or switch to workspace 3
SPC W 4 create or switch to workspace 4
SPC W 5 create or switch to workspace 5
SPC W 6 create or switch to workspace 6
SPC W 7 create or switch to workspace 7
SPC W 8 create or switch to workspace 8
SPC W 9 create or switch to workspace 9
SPC W 0 create or switch to workspace 0
SPC W TAB switch to last active workspace
SPC W c close current workspace
SPC W n switch to next workspace
SPC W N or SPC W p create or switch to workspace 0