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I am new to Emacs and I am trying to set up a decent workflow for projects I already have.

What I want to do is to be able to have tabs of buffers on each window (not frame). What I want essentially is, having a tiled configuration of windows, to commit each window on a specific set of buffers, e.g. perhaps I want the upper left window to only cycle between 3 specific buffers. If that does not involve tabs but rather a non-visible set of buffers, I don't mind, but I want to be able to manually set the tabs/buffers assigned to each window - no automatic grouping based on filtering, for start at least.

After a bit of searching, the solutions I found (TabBar, awesome-tab) were either tabs that had some type of filtering grouping for all the available buffers, or tabs that involved switching the whole screen of windows to another. So here I am.

Any proposed solutions?

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  • Can you give names of the solutions you've looked at? – DoMiNeLa10 Aug 15 '19 at 19:30
  • @DoMiNeLa10 Tabbar, awesome-tab. At least I did not find a solution readily available for what I want, and I am not good enough at Emacs to thoroughly investigate the matter. If the solution is in one of these and I just have not seen it, let me know. – Noob Doob Aug 15 '19 at 21:09
  • Can you add these to your post? It is expected to show some effort was put into the problem before posting a question on Stack Exchange. – DoMiNeLa10 Aug 15 '19 at 21:20
  • If it is possible to store an arbitrary value (e.g., a list) in the window-parameters, then I may have an idea similar to how frame-bufs (by Alp Aker) stores a custom list in the frame-parameters. I have not played around with that idea, but that is where I would start. You need to be able to store window-local data to best accomplish your goal; however, there may be other solutions using buffer-local values that store window-local values -- that is not ideal in my opinion, but may be an avenue to explore also. – lawlist Aug 16 '19 at 4:55
  • @lawlist I started using Emacs days ago, and I am searching for ready solutions to simple needs in order to get to a workflow comfortable for me, and then pick up skills as I go. I have written enough LISP to know my way around, but it is still too early for me to start messing with custom solutions in Emacs as I still got things to grasp regarding its structure and perks. If no ready solution is found in time, perhaps I will revisit my question to post my own solutions, I hope soon. – Noob Doob Aug 16 '19 at 23:44

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