projects.yazi

A Yazi plugin that adds the functionality to save, load and merge projects. A project means all tabs and their status, including cwd and so on.

Note

The latest release of Yazi is required at the moment.

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Features

• Save/load projects
• Load last project
• Projects persistence
• Merge a project or its current tab to other projects

Installation

ya pack -a MasouShizuka/projects.yazi

or

# Windows
git clone https://github.com/MasouShizuka/projects.yazi.git %AppData%\yazi\config\plugins\projects.yazi

# Linux/macOS
git clone https://github.com/MasouShizuka/projects.yazi.git ~/.config/yazi/plugins/projects.yazi

Configuration

Add this to your keymap.toml:

[[manager.prepend_keymap]]
on = [ "P", "s" ]
run = "plugin projects --args=save"
desc = "Save current project"

[[manager.prepend_keymap]]
on = [ "P", "l" ]
run = "plugin projects --args=load"
desc = "Load project"

[[manager.prepend_keymap]]
on = [ "P", "P" ]
run = "plugin projects --args=load_last"
desc = "Load last project"

[[manager.prepend_keymap]]
on = [ "P", "d" ]
run = "plugin projects --args=delete"
desc = "Delete project"

[[manager.prepend_keymap]]
on = [ "P", "D" ]
run = "plugin projects --args=delete_all"
desc = "Delete all projects"

[[manager.prepend_keymap]]
on = [ "P", "m" ]
run = "plugin projects --args='merge current'"
desc = "Merge current tab to other projects"

[[manager.prepend_keymap]]
on = [ "P", "M" ]
run = "plugin projects --args='merge all'"
desc = "Merge current project to other projects"

If you want to save the last project when exiting, map the default quit key to:

[[manager.prepend_keymap]]
on = [ "q" ]
run = "plugin projects --args=quit"
desc = "Save last project and exit the process"

---

Additionally there are configurations that can be done using the plugin's setup function in Yazi's init.lua, i.e. ~/.config/yazi/init.lua. The following are the default configurations:

require("projects"):setup({
    save = {
        method = "yazi", -- yazi | lua
        lua_save_path = "", -- comment out to get the default value
                            -- windows: "%APPDATA%/yazi/state/projects.json"
                            -- unix: "~/.local/state/yazi/projects.json"
    },
    last = {
        update_after_save = true,
        update_after_load = true,
        load_after_start = false,
    },
    merge = {
        quit_after_merge = false,
    },
    notify = {
        enable = true,
        title = "Projects",
        timeout = 3,
        level = "info",
    },
})

save

Note

Yazi's api sometimes doesn't work on Windows, which is why the lua method is proposed

method: the method of saving projects:

• yazi: using yazi api to save to .dds file
• lua: using lua api to save

lua_save_path: the path of saved file with lua api, the defalut is

• Windows: %APPDATA%/yazi/state/projects.json
• Unix: ~/.local/state/yazi/projects.json

last

The last project is loaded by load_last command.

update_after_save: the saved project will be saved to last project.

update_after_load: the loaded project will be saved to last project.

load_after_start: the last project will be loaded after starting.

• Only work with lua method, please refer to #2

merge

quit_after_merge: the merged project will be exited after merging.

notify

When enabled, notifications are displayed when actions are performed.

title, timeout, level are the same as ya.notify.