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One of the later versions added support for Javascript configuration which makes it extremely powerful: https://github.com/jigish/slate/wiki/JavaScript-Configs
Slate is amazing, been using it for a few months. Biggest issue is it takes a bit of config to get it just right. Here's my config file. # Configs config defaultToCurrentScreen true config checkDefaultsOnLoad true config windowHintsShowIcons true config windowHintsIgnoreHiddenWindows false #config windowHintsDuration 5 config windowHintsSpread true #config windowHintsOrder persist config windowHintsFontColor 0;0;0;1.…
Prepend four spaces to get a formatting-preserving view. Though you might want to plop that on a pastebin somewhere instead.
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Lots of people -- I'm one of them -- find that switching whole windows seems to pop the mental stack. Whereas turning my head left and right does not do so. Most programming requires at least 4 logical views, IMO: 1. The code 2. The result of the code (web page, test results etc) 3. Documentation that supports coding 4. A control mechanism (ie, a terminal) No doubt there will be quibbling that some of these are reall…
Lots of people -- I'm one of them -- find that switching whole windows seems to pop the mental stack. That's really interesting! I have the opposite problem - switching windows doesn't pop my mental stack, but if there's anything on the screen other than what I'm trying to focus on, it keeps diverting my attention and ruining my concentration. Fullscreen emacs on OSX (without even the system menu bar!) is just awesom…
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Lots of people -- I'm one of them -- find that switching whole windows seems to pop the mental stack. That's really interesting! I have the opposite problem - switching windows doesn't pop my mental stack, but if there's anything on the screen other than what I'm trying to focus on, it keeps diverting my attention and ruining my concentration. Fullscreen emacs on OSX (without even the system menu bar!) is just awesom…
How do you get true fullscreen mode in Emacs on OS X?
I have used Slate for quite a while to manage my windows, and I think it's great, especially the snapshoting and layout functionality allowing me to go easily between an external screen and my laptop's screen. One of the later versions added support for Javascript configuration which makes it extremely powerful: https://github.com/jigish/slate/wiki/JavaScript-Configs
Since it seems that everyone is posting their favorite flavor, here's mine: http://spectacleapp.com/ . Open source and gets you hooked in minutes. I can't imagine using OS X without it.
I do find tiling wm without removing the window borders kind of ... well not really useless, but not all that practival. Especially on OS X, where the hot keys are pretty well standardized and you can be pretty sure about what Command-Q does, spending all that room on window borders and few buttons seems so wasteful.
What I've been doing many years now is getting a 80 column terminal/editor/im client/whatever on one side of the screen and other apps on what's left. Seems pretty near perfection :)
Am I the only one who hardly sees any value in window managers? About 99% of the time, I'm wanting only one window visible at a time, with others quickly accessible via cmd-tab and cmd=`.