Re: [dwm] GNU screen-like workflow suggestion for dwm.

Tako rzecze Alexander Polakov (w e-mailu datowanym 2007-08-24, 00:51):

> * Antoni Grzymala <antoni_AT_chopin.edu.pl> [070824 00:37]:
> > Dear gals and lads;
> >
> > I have a little suggestion (for someone to turn into live code) that
> > would in my opinion ease working with tags greatly.
> >
> > Let's say I'm viewing clients tagged 1 and 4 and I want to quickly
> > glance at tag 3. Then I want to get back to what I was doing with a
> > single keystroke. Say this would be mod-` in my case. So dwm should
> > remember last viewed tags before change and have a function (with a key
> > bound to it) to return. This way by pressing the key again I could
> > quickly swap between 1, 4 and 3 without remembering where I actually was
> > last.
> >
> > I use a similar workflow in GNU screen, where you swap between current
> > and last seen screen by double-pressing the screen escape key, instead
> > of searching or cycling. Quick and convenient.
> >
> > Hope my explanation is clear. What do you think?
> >
> > [a]
>
> More general idea is to have multiple views (sets of tags) which
> can be called with a hotkey.

I think this is an entirely different idea (not encompassing mine), as
in my case the “last seen view” is dynamic.

Not that yours is not worth considering. OTH, isn't it actually
currently possible to bind a single key to view a predefined set of
tags?

[a]

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