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'

outlet-manager