workgroup creation sort of broken

[ramestica]

I proceed like this:

.- C-x 2
.- create a workgroup named "h"
.- C-x 1
.- C-x 3
.- create a workgroup named "v"

but the last operation does not look okay. Unexpectedly the frame changes back to just one window and that window contains the scratch buffer. wg-save produced the output shown below.

All this on emacs 24.2.1.

Anybody else having this problem?

thanks,
Rodrigo

(workgroups ((type . workgroup) (uid . 0) (name . "h") (wconfig (type . wconfig) (left . 24) (top . 40) (width . 85) (height . 42) (sbars) (sbwid . 0) (wtree (type . wtree) (dir . t) (edges 0 0 87 41) (wlist ((type . window) (edges 0 0 87 20) (bname . "HEAD") (fname) (point . 244) (mark) (markx) (wstart . 1) (hscroll . 0) (sbars 10 0 t nil) (margins nil) (fringes 9 9 nil) (selwin . t) (mbswin) (dedicated)) ((type . window) (edges 0 20 87 41) (bname . "HEAD") (fname) (point . 244) (mark) (markx) (wstart . 1) (hscroll . 0) (sbars 10 0 t nil) (margins nil) (fringes 9 9 nil) (selwin) (mbswin) (dedicated)))))) ((type . workgroup) (uid . 1) (name . "v") (wconfig (type . wconfig) (left . 344) (top . 40) (width . 85) (height . 42) (sbars) (sbwid . 0) (wtree (type . window) (edges 0 0 87 41) (bname . "scratch") (fname) (point . :max) (mark) (markx) (wstart . 1) (hscroll . 0) (sbars 10 0 t nil) (margins nil) (fringes 9 9 nil) (selwin . t) (mbswin) (dedicated)))))

[mrpersonguy]

Yup, I get this too.

[mikef656]

Same issue, running GNU emacs 24.3.1 on Win7, looks like the wg creation goes wrong such that the created wg contains the scratch buffer rather than what was expected.

[juergenhoetzel]

This is expected behavior. See the function docstring for wg-create-workgroup:

...
Create and add a workgroup named NAME. If workgroups already exist, create a blank workgroup.
...

You might wan't to use wg-clone-workgroup

BTW: workgroups.el moved to a new organization: https://github.com/workgroups/workgroups.el
...

[mikef656]

The tutorial asks the user to repeat wg-create-workgroup ("Repeat this process a few times...). Is the tutorial asking the user to do something different than the steps associated with this bug report? Is the tutorial incorrect?

From the Tutorial
To start off, add a few workgroups. Hit c to issue the command wg-create-workgroup, give it a name, hit RET, and a new workgroup is created. Maybe split the screen a few times with C-x 2 and C-x 3, and switch to different buffers in some of the windows to make it unique. Repeat this process a few times to create some different workgroups.

[ashishnegi]

After first workgroup none of furthur workgroups have any file associated with them.
After creating the workgroups and realigning the windows , then saving the workgroups with <prefix> C-s .. the save-workgroup-file contains no files with the workgroups after the first workgroup.

[panaak]

@ashishnegi i have the same problem. anybody has a solution? with this hapening workgroups.el is unusable. otherwise it looks like a great tool.