#lang scribble/doc

@(require scribble/manual)

@title{ProjectsMgr: a plugin for DrScheme}

Provides Save and Reload Tabs buttons in DrScheme. Your file lists are saved to the directory of your choice to the file "saved-tabs-file.sp".

@section[#:tag "features"]{Features}

@(itemize
  (item "Support for multiple projects")
  (item "Open files are not reopened in new tabs")
  (item "Team friendly relative paths lets you share projects"))

@section[#:tag "tips"]{Tips}

@(itemize
  (item "Name the saved file according to the task on which you are working"))

@section[#:tag "todo"]{To Do}

@(itemize
  (item "Add scribble documentation")
  (item "Put the buttons on the left near the file chooser/browser. - I can't work out how to do thid (HELP)")
  (item "A menu in the menubar might be a better place rather than buttons. (HELP)")
  (item "The button icons don't show up - I can't work out how to get them working. (HELP)")
  (item "task picker")
  )

Any help appreciated...

@section[#:tag "dev-workflow"]{Development Workflow}

@(itemize
  (item "Edit files in svn/projects-project")
  (item "Close DrScheme")
  (item "Copy to collects/projects-project")
  (item "Run in terminal; bin/setup-plt -l projects-project ")
  (item "Reopen DrScheme")
  (item "Open/run pack.ss to make the planet package"))

@section[#:tag "goals-and-vision"]{Goals and Vision}

I think this message is a good starting point: http://list.cs.brown.edu/pipermail/plt-scheme/2007-September/020755.html.

@(itemize
  (item "Saving a group (of tabs) as a file")
  (item "A task db (something that could survive a version control system - maybe each task as a file)")
  (item "Associating tasks with groups"))

@section[#:tag "org-rationale"]{Original Rationale}

@verbatim[#:indent 2]{
                      ;Anton van Straaten anton at appsolutions.com
                      ;Wed Sep 26 12:07:10 EDT 2007
                      ;
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                      ;
                      ;Robby Findler wrote:
                      ;> FWIW, I think that this would make a fairly easy tool to write (one
                      ;> that did a firefox-like thing and remembered the open files from last
                      ;> time). I'd be happy to help anyone if they try to write it and get
                      ;> stuck.
                      ;
                      ;Just to introduce some scope creep, and in the interests of leapfrogging 
                      ;a full recapitulation of the history of IDEs, I think it'd be a good 
                      ;idea to make the list of open files a kind of first-class entity, that 
                      ;could e.g. be saved in a directory and reopened later.
                      ;
                      ;This is a fairly simple enhancement which opens the door to some very 
                      ;useful possibilities.  A good example of these possibilities can be 
                      ;found in Mylyn[*], which is a plugin for the Eclipse IDE.
                      ;
                      ;Mylyn allows you to associate a set of open files with a "task".  When 
                      ;you switch between tasks, a different set of files is opened 
                      ;automatically - whatever was open when you last worked on the selected 
                      ;task.  In big projects, this can be quite a blessing.
                      ;
                      ;Mylyn takes this idea a step further and integrates its task abstraction 
                      ;with issue tracking systems like Bugzilla and Trac.  One of the things 
                      ;it allows is for the list of open files to be stored as an attachment on 
                      ;a ticket in such a system.  Again, just having the list of open files be 
                      ;manipulable at some level makes all these things possible.
                      ;
                      ;Anton
                      ;
                      ;[*] http://www.eclipse.org/mylyn/
                      ;
                      ;Articles about Mylyn, with lots of screenshots:
                      ;
                      ;http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-mylyn1/
                      ;http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-mylyn2/
                      }