What you’re describing reminds me of ace-window, but I don’t know if it’s been configured for Spacemacs or there’s a preferred alternative.
jmitchell
AstonJ
I must be going blind because the numbers are already there 
(in the bottom left corner of each window 
)
Forseth
Been looking through this over the weekend and I have been trying a lot of weirdness (good thing I took backup of the config file before starting) I am still no closer I have been moving around stuff removing layers and so on, I would really like to have this solved myself. so I will look into it after work tomorrow. let me know if you solve it somehow.
Forseth
There Should not be a quote there at all 
fixed it.
Now you know how 90% of my bugs are made !
AstonJ
Does anyone know how to get the shell (SPC ') to open in the project root, or the user’s own root? Currently it opens in the directory of whichever file you have open.
jmitchell
You need to override the default-directory variable. I discovered that by…
- Pressing
C-h k SPC 'to learnSPC 'is bound to(spacemacs/default-pop-shell)which is defined in../layers/+tools/shell/funcs.el. - Opening the link to that file and seeing
spacemacs/default-pop-shellcalls theshellfunction. - With the cursor over
shell, pressC-h f RETto see docs forshell. - Notice mention of
default-directory.
If ‘default-directory’ is a remote file name, it is also prompted
to change if called with a prefix arg.
Hopefully all those keybindings work. I’m currently using the hybrid keybinding mode since I don’t know many Vim commands yet.
Then I tinkered with ielm to come up with a strategy for calling shell with a custom default-directory and came up with:
(defun shell-in-directory (dir)
(let ((default-directory dir))
(shell)))
(shell-in-directory "/usr/local/bin")
;; opens a shell window at /usr/local/bin when evaluated
Let me know if you could use help integrating that with your keybindings.
AstonJ
Nice one - thanks @jmitchell
Where would I put the above? When I put it in defun dotspacemacs/user-config or dotspacemacs/user-init and reload it it immediately opens a shell and when I close the shell window and try to open another with SPC ' it just ignores your code and opens it in the directory like it would have previously.
jmitchell
This part about default-directory suggests there may be a way to do this without adding any custom configuration, but I haven’t figured out how to pass the directory as a prefix argument in Spacemacs.
I’m also not sure yet whether spacemacs/default-pop-shell would have to be patched to pass through the prefix argument to shell.
jmitchell
I’m still getting used to Spacemacs’ configuration, so I’ll focus less on where it should go and more on what Emacs needs.
(defun shell-in-directory ()
(interactive)
(let* ((orig-default-dir default-directory)
(default-directory (read-string "Directory: " orig-default-directory)))
(spacemacs/default-pop-shell)))
Then M-x shell-in-directory will prompt you for the desired directory, defaulting to the current default-directory.
I tried adding a custom keybinding for SPC " like this, but it fails saying SPC isn’t a prefix key.
(global-set-key (kbd "SPC \"") #'shell-in-directory)
Adapt as necessary to Spacemacs conventions for adding or overriding leader bindings.