atom-outlet-manager

Uniformly manage outlets in workspace from keyboard.
The outlet is special TextEditor created by atom-outlet library.

Development status

Alpha. Now actively developing, experimenting ideas.

What's this?

Provide command to manager outlets in workspace uniformly via keyboard.

What's the outlet?

• Just instance of TextEditor with special attribute and methods.
• Outlet can easily
  • open(dock, center at adjacent-pane),
  • toggle
  • hide
  • relocate: relocate from bottom dock to center or vise versa.

Which package create outlet?

• atom-narrow: narrow-editor is outlet.
• atom-transformer: each transformer write output to outlet.
• And some my locally used package.

Then what's benefit?

Without requiring pkg specific command/keymap.

• Can focus currently opened outlets by keyboard.
• Can close opened outlets by keyboard.
• Can relocate opened outlets by keyboard.

keymap example

'atom-workspace':
  'cmd-h': 'outlet:toggle'

'atom-text-editor[outlet]':
  'cmd-w': 'core:close'

'atom-workspace.has-outlet atom-text-editor.vim-mode-plus.normal-mode':
  'cmd-f': 'outlet:toggle-focus'

'atom-workspace.has-visible-outlet atom-text-editor.vim-mode-plus.normal-mode':
  'ctrl-g': 'outlet:close'
  'ctrl-cmd-t': 'outlet:relocate'