Workspaces

slosh has the concept of workspaces. Essentially a workspace is a pane layout that represents a project. slosh will scan your config's project_roots folder(s) for two kinds of sub folders: ones that have a slosh.layout file, and ones that have a .git but no slosh.layout. in the latter case our project picker can still pick it up and help you provision a new slosh.layout.

Configuration options

Two settings, both in your config:

project_roots "~/dev" "~/work" depth=2
project_layout "~/.config/slosh/project.layout"

project_roots takes one or more director{y,ies}, and depth is how many levels below each root to look, 2 by default.

From the keyboard

The picker narrows on a project's name, its path and which marker it has, so typing .git gives you the projects with no layout yet, which is the list you want when you are about to write one. A project that is already open shows its purpose instead, and a dot marks the workspace you are in.

Closing one is C-a X, which closes the tab and the workspace with it.

Saving one

C-a W writes the focused tab to slosh.layout in the project's directory.

What each pane is running goes in with it. That is what makes writing a layout the same act as arranging one: split the tab, start the dev server, start the log tailer, tag the ones that matter, C-a W. A pane's terminal has a foreground process group and that group is the job running in it, so nothing has to be declared up front for it to be recorded.

save-workspace also takes path, for a tab that is not a workspace yet: that is how a hand-arranged tab becomes a project's layout without opening it through the picker first.

slosh --check slosh.layout holds the result to the layout schema and prints one file:line: what per problem, so a project's layout goes through the same check as everything else.

Identity

A workspace is its tab's purpose:

project:api.9f3c1d20

The hash is of the resolved absolute path, not of the name, so two git worktrees of one repo are two workspaces, which is what they are; a name-keyed session would have merged them and then focused the wrong one. Membership is that string and nothing else: no side table of open projects to fall out of step with the tabs.

Because the session declared it, it is locked: no program running in a pane can relabel a project tab, however chatty its title.

From another program

Open one and act on what is in it, over the control socket:

$ slosh -s work cmd '{"cmd":"open-workspace","name":"api"}'
{"ok":true,"tab":3,"purpose":"project:api.9f3c1d20","created":true,...}
$ slosh -s work cmd '{"cmd":"panes"}'      # keep the ones whose tab_id is 3

Every one of them is in the bare dispatcher too, so slosh -s work cmd workspaces and slosh -s work cmd open-workspace api do the same from a shell without quoting JSON (scripting).

open-workspace is idempotent: asking twice focuses the tab rather than building a second one, so a script that does not know whether it already ran is safe. suspended:true opens the layout with every pane suspended whatever the file said: the open ten projects, run zero processes case, which is a different question from the one the project answered about which of its own panes are expensive.