Homepage: https://gitlab.com/tygrdev/boxy
Author: Amy Grinn
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A boxy layout framework
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Boxy provides an interface to create a 3D representation of
boxes. Each box has a relationship with one other box. Multiple
boxes can be related to one box. The relationship can be any of
the following:
- in
- on
- behind
- on top of
- in front of
- above
- below
- to the right of
- to the left of
The relationship determines the ordering and structure of the
resulting boxy diagram.
Only boxes which have their :name slot set will be drawn to the
buffer. Boxes without names still take up space and can have
children, so can be used for grouping. All diagrams have one top
level unnamed box called a `world'.
Each box should have either a list of markers or an action
function. When viewing a box that has a list of markers, the
following keybindings are available:
RET/mouse-1 - Jump to the first marker
o - Open next marker in other window.
Pressed multiple times, cycle through markers.
M-RET - Open all markers as separate buffers.
This will split the current window as needed.
When viewing a box with an action function, RET and
will be bound to that function.
Additionally, all boxes have the following keybindings defined:
r - Jump to the box directly related to the current box.
Repeated presses will eventually take you to the
top level box.
TAB - Cycle visibility of box's children
See the class definition for `boxy-box' for all other available
properties.
To start, create an empty box named `world'.
(let ((world (boxy-box)))
Use the method `boxy-add-next' to add top-level boxes to the
world, without relationships:
(let ((cyprus (boxy-box :name "Cyprus"))
(greece (boxy-box :name "Greece")))
(boxy-add-next cyprus world)
(boxy-add-next greece world)
To ease the boxy renderer, use the :expand-siblings and
:expand-children slots. These should be list of functions which
take the current box as an argument and call `boxy-add-next' to
add sibling boxes and children boxes respectively. Children
boxes are defined as any box with a relationship of in, on,
behind, in front of, or on top of. Sibling boxes are defined as
any box with a relationship of above, below, to the left of, or
to the right of.
(object-add-to-list cyprus :expand-siblings
'(lambda (box)
(boxy-add-next
(boxy-box :name "Lebanon" :rel "below")
box)))
The expansion slots will be called when the user toggles the
box's visibility.
To display a box in a popup buffer, use the function `boxy-pp'.
The methods `boxy-merge' and `boxy-merge-into' should be
used to merge boxes together. `boxy-merge' takes a list of
boxes and merges them into one box. `boxy-merge-into' takes
two boxes and merges the first into the second.