Quick start projects

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!

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.

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.

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

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

Congratulations, you just invented the IDE.

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!

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.

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