On 1/31/20 5:55 PM, J. Liles wrote:
On 30-01-2020 02:09, J. Liles wrote:My thoughts on this: 1) Seems silly not to support the NSM session format, given how easy it is to read and write. 2) I use git with NSM (and have done so from the start). I recommend everyone to do so (with a .gitignore file ignoring *.wav files). I find using git on the commandline easy enough, so that's what I do (I usually only make a commit before doing something radical, like switching from recording to mixing phases). But if someone wanted e.g to have saving the NSM session automatically create a git commit, one could write a trivial NSM client to do so (just a bash script + zenity would do)---I see no reason that something so orthogonal should be built into the server or server GUI. 3) Window placement persistence is better left to the WM. If your WM doesn't permit this kind of thing, I suggest using a better WM. I personally use StumpWM and use a fixed frame arrangement with window placement rules for all the software I use. Just a reminder: Being very integrated with/embedded in various orthogonal systems was a major part of what made all the previous SMs suck.Thanks for the git trick. So something like: cd to ~/NSM\ Sessions/my-session-folder git init touch .gitignore echo *.wav >> .gitignore git add --all git commit --all One thing that could improve in the non-session-manager probably is TAB autocomplete. Most of us know the names of the applications, but most (new) users would expect to be able to use TAB autocomplete. I think this feature could help users and developers adopting NSM. I think it would also fasten things up, if I could use the keybinding 'a' to add new client to the session.Yes. You can also just add git-gui as a client to your NSM session to have an easy point and click way to make new commits (unfortunately, git-gui is not its own executable, you have to specify "gui" as an argument to "git", which forces you to use NSM proxy unless you create a shell script named git-gui which just does "exec git gui"...
I've also stumbled upon this an old and early attempt, for future reference maybe.
https://github.com/rhetr/nsm-git
