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Switching between different, exported trees + copying, cutting and pasting windows

Open philiprhoades opened this issue 5 years ago • 1 comments

People,

My current working tree has 447 windows in it, however:

  • 12 are labelled "Recovered tabs"
  • 139 are "Saved tabs"

and it occurred to me that it would be good to move these 151 windows into a separate work tree - but that means:

  • being able to highlight a section of windows (I have grouped them all together by using "Move to top")

Now that I have got used to single-click for opening or viewing windows, we would need to have different functions on:

  • CTRL-click
  • SHIFT-click

which would correspond to their usual use for selecting items in lists and then being able to copy, cut and paste the highlighted windows to a different part of the tree or buffer with the usual:

  • CTRL-c
  • CTRL-x
  • CTRL-v

I am guessing that exporting and importing between different trees is going to be quicker than implementing a multi-tree option in TabFern from scratch but at least with the above functions that would not be a great pain . . but TF is the core of my browser management now and I am finding that some sort of multi-tree function is starting to become needed . . think of it as a "macro" grouping of related windows, in which each window has a "micro" grouping of related tabs.

What do you think?

philiprhoades avatar Jan 02 '21 09:01 philiprhoades

I heartily agree! Blocked on #34.

cxw42 avatar Apr 29 '21 00:04 cxw42