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70 points by daw___ 13y ago

facorreia 13y ago
Very interesting. I also find myself often doing the same repetitive workspace setup. I think I'll go ahead and try to apply this technique on my Linux environment.
- facorreia 13y ago
  Update: Easier than I thought. I just created a Bash script with the project's name and with a few lines I open my most used applications for working on that project.
purereason 13y ago
I'd love to see someone build a similar script that can also work with desktop applications like Eclipse or creative tools like Photoshop so we can with one click switch between project without having to close / open files and applications. There's a good chance there's something out there like that, if so I'd live to know about it, and if not it might be a cool thing to have. Thanks!
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- rch 13y ago
  Eclipse has mylyn, is that what you're thinking?
- kevinyun 13y ago
  One of the startup companies I used to work with was called Cupcloud (http://cupcloud.com http://cupcloud.com). If you're OK with a cloud app, it can support Photoshop and Illustrator
tdavis 13y ago
My setup is Emacs + workgroups.el + prodigy.el. No GUI apps to manage, everything configurable via elisp. It is grand.
danieldk 13y ago
Interesting! At some point I have started creating small shell functions to switch between environments (setting the correct paths, etc.). This was when I was mainly doing C, C++, and Prolog work. In my last two positions I primarily work on mavenized Java projects and find that IntelliJ projects provide most of the context switching. The upside is that it is far less work to set up and customise projects than vim/emacs plus shell. The downside is that the customisation that you can do is far more limited. I'd love to hear experiences from someone who works on Python or Ruby code, and tried both PyCharm/RubyMine vs. vim/emacs/tmux.
- mahmoudimus 13y ago
  I am a diehard Emacs fan. However, I use IntelliJ for all projects with the Python, Ruby, HTML plugins. I have a keybinding (C-c, C-e) to open up the current buffer in Emacs if I'm trying to use Emacs, but I mostly stay in IntelliJ for most of my time.
yla92 13y ago
The only problem I have with tmux is copy/paste texts from outside. Maybe, I am too noob. How do you guys do that ?
- ilteris 13y ago
  I am guessing you are aware of. https://github.com/ChrisJohnsen/tmux-MacOSX-pasteboard https://github.com/ChrisJohnsen/tmux-MacOSX-pasteboard That solves a lot of issues I have with copy paste.
raphaelb 13y ago
This is super cool! I've often thought about doing exactly this but never got off my ass to start building it! The only other functionality I would like out of my own setup which I might play around with is having each of the projects have some keyword / context based on the project. So for example all of my 'blog' browser windows are in one browser window with multiple tabs and I could be in another project and move a tab to my blog project easily. The other thing I would like about that is sometimes I end up with 25+ tabs, all over the place relating to one or two of my projects. If when I did the equivalent of virtualenvs "deactivate", it would save all of the tabs in the active projects browser window and they would open later when I deactivated the project. This also would be useful for to leave a project all alone, as close to how I left off as possible to focus on something else, but without losing that state. Like screen for your entire work setup. Thanks for sharing your setup!
sbov 13y ago
In osx I just have a desktop per project and never close anything related to it. I code using vim though so I'm not sure if this works with an ide.
- jaredandrews 13y ago
  I have tried this setup but I found it particularly problematic that there isn't a separate 'dock' per desktop so I end out accidentally switching desktops for common apps such as a browser and shell. Have you found a work around for this issue?
  - ludwigvan 13y ago
    How about having a separate user for projects, too radical? Automate user creation and initialization.
    - ilteris 13y ago
      That's part of the reason you have tools like Vagrant and VMs.You don't have to create separate accounts for each project but emulate that in your VMs.
  - sbov 13y ago
    I don't really have this problem. I mostly use command-tab to switch between apps, which seems to honor the desktop I'm on. For browser and shell I right click the app and choose "new window" in the desktop of choice.
- thwarted 13y ago
  Yeah, I'm usually working on some remote machine, and keep multiple tmux instances running with the state of each medium or high level project. I've found I rarely have more than two going at once though.
thatthatis 13y ago
Wow, I just built nearly the same thing for my windows environment using autohoykey. I might put together a post about it now that I see there is some interest
- 5555624 13y ago
  Since I end up using Windows more than I'd like, I'd like to see it. Thanks.
- deleted 13y ago
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ilaksh 13y ago
Congratulations, you just invented the IDE.

70 points by daw___ 13y ago

Very interesting. I also find myself often doing the same repetitive workspace setup. I think I'll go ahead and try to apply this technique on my Linux environment.

facorreia 13y ago
Update: Easier than I thought. I just created a Bash script with the project's name and with a few lines I open my most used applications for working on that project.

purereason 13y ago

I'd love to see someone build a similar script that can also work with desktop applications like Eclipse or creative tools like Photoshop so we can with one click switch between project without having to close / open files and applications. There's a good chance there's something out there like that, if so I'd live to know about it, and if not it might be a cool thing to have. Thanks!

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rch 13y ago
Eclipse has mylyn, is that what you're thinking?
kevinyun 13y ago
One of the startup companies I used to work with was called Cupcloud (http://cupcloud.com http://cupcloud.com). If you're OK with a cloud app, it can support Photoshop and Illustrator

tdavis 13y ago

My setup is Emacs + workgroups.el + prodigy.el. No GUI apps to manage, everything configurable via elisp. It is grand.

danieldk 13y ago

Interesting! At some point I have started creating small shell functions to switch between environments (setting the correct paths, etc.). This was when I was mainly doing C, C++, and Prolog work. In my last two positions I primarily work on mavenized Java projects and find that IntelliJ projects provide most of the context switching. The upside is that it is far less work to set up and customise projects than vim/emacs plus shell. The downside is that the customisation that you can do is far more limited. I'd love to hear experiences from someone who works on Python or Ruby code, and tried both PyCharm/RubyMine vs. vim/emacs/tmux.

mahmoudimus 13y ago
I am a diehard Emacs fan. However, I use IntelliJ for all projects with the Python, Ruby, HTML plugins. I have a keybinding (C-c, C-e) to open up the current buffer in Emacs if I'm trying to use Emacs, but I mostly stay in IntelliJ for most of my time.

yla92 13y ago

The only problem I have with tmux is copy/paste texts from outside. Maybe, I am too noob. How do you guys do that ?

ilteris 13y ago
I am guessing you are aware of. https://github.com/ChrisJohnsen/tmux-MacOSX-pasteboard https://github.com/ChrisJohnsen/tmux-MacOSX-pasteboard That solves a lot of issues I have with copy paste.

raphaelb 13y ago

This is super cool! I've often thought about doing exactly this but never got off my ass to start building it! The only other functionality I would like out of my own setup which I might play around with is having each of the projects have some keyword / context based on the project. So for example all of my 'blog' browser windows are in one browser window with multiple tabs and I could be in another project and move a tab to my blog project easily. The other thing I would like about that is sometimes I end up with 25+ tabs, all over the place relating to one or two of my projects. If when I did the equivalent of virtualenvs "deactivate", it would save all of the tabs in the active projects browser window and they would open later when I deactivated the project. This also would be useful for to leave a project all alone, as close to how I left off as possible to focus on something else, but without losing that state. Like screen for your entire work setup. Thanks for sharing your setup!

sbov 13y ago

In osx I just have a desktop per project and never close anything related to it. I code using vim though so I'm not sure if this works with an ide.

jaredandrews 13y ago
I have tried this setup but I found it particularly problematic that there isn't a separate 'dock' per desktop so I end out accidentally switching desktops for common apps such as a browser and shell. Have you found a work around for this issue?
- ludwigvan 13y ago
  How about having a separate user for projects, too radical? Automate user creation and initialization.
  - ilteris 13y ago
    That's part of the reason you have tools like Vagrant and VMs.You don't have to create separate accounts for each project but emulate that in your VMs.
- sbov 13y ago
  I don't really have this problem. I mostly use command-tab to switch between apps, which seems to honor the desktop I'm on. For browser and shell I right click the app and choose "new window" in the desktop of choice.
thwarted 13y ago
Yeah, I'm usually working on some remote machine, and keep multiple tmux instances running with the state of each medium or high level project. I've found I rarely have more than two going at once though.

thatthatis 13y ago

Wow, I just built nearly the same thing for my windows environment using autohoykey. I might put together a post about it now that I see there is some interest

5555624 13y ago
Since I end up using Windows more than I'd like, I'd like to see it. Thanks.
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ilaksh 13y ago

Congratulations, you just invented the IDE.