Q: can treemacs tree contains links to files/urls ? Can a subdirectory not be a project in its own right?

[rileyrg]

Is it possible to link files? eg link to most frequently accessed emacs project files.

* Emacs Related
 ** Emacs Editor
  - path :: ~/.emacs.d
  *** Important Files
   **** [[Custom][elisp/custom.el]]
   **** [[Config][config.org]]
 ** Treemacs
  - path :: ~/.emacs.d/straight/repos/treemacs

Can any node be a file link?

In addition, I would like to be able to have a project pointing to a sub project and this doesnt seem possible. Is it?

* Emacs
** Config
 - path :: ~/.emacs.d
** Lessons
 - path :: ~/.emacs.d/elisp/lessons

It complains that ~/.emacs.d/elisp/lessons appears in the workspace more than once. Which it does because its a sub sub directory of the first project but it would be nice to have it in the tree as its own project. Or, whichi might the case, should I just use treemacs bookmarks to jump to that sub project node?

Currently Im happy to create a workspace and then just add different sub directories of my top level project as projects but of course that means I can't browse all files at the top level but It's not so critical as I can dired for that anyway.

[Alexander-Miller]

Is it possible to link files? eg link to most frequently accessed emacs project files.

There's a project to integrate treemacs with Emacs' built-in bookmarking abilities at https://github.com/Jasu/treemacs-bookmark, though I am not sure just how complete and functional it is. I intend to pick it up myself to migrate it to the new extension api after #677 is done.

In addition, I would like to be able to have a project pointing to a sub project and this doesnt seem possible. Is it?

No that's not possible, and won't be for a very long time.
Let's put it this way: if treemacs was a database schema then a file's absolute path would be treated as its UNIQUE PRIMARY KEY. So it's not that I don't want to lift this restriction, it's that doing so requires a massive refactoring touching almost every corner of treemacs' internals, with a dozen edge cases around every such corner. So if I ever get around to working on this it'll mean I'm done with all my other ideas.

[rileyrg]

Absolutely agree.

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On Mon, 7 Sep 2020, 19:46 Alexander-Miller ***@***.***> wrote: Is it possible to link files? eg link to most frequently accessed emacs project files. There's a project to integrate treemacs with Emacs' built-in bookmarking abilities at https://github.com/Jasu/treemacs-bookmark, though I am not sure just how complete and functional it is. I intend to pick it up myself to migrate it to the new extension api after #677 <#677> is done. In addition, I would like to be able to have a project pointing to a sub project and this doesnt seem possible. Is it? No that's not possible, and won't be for a very long time. Let's put it this way: if treemacs was a database schema then a file's absolute path would be treated as its UNIQUE PRIMARY KEY. So it's not that I don't want to lift this restriction, it's that doing so requires a massive refactoring touching almost every corner of treemacs' internals, with a dozen edge cases around every such corner. So if I ever get around to working on this it'll mean I'm done with all my other ideas. — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#718 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AACYTC45YGNJBAZYW35AM7TSEUMBFANCNFSM4Q2VTDQQ> .

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