Tabs

Tabs

[Maurizio Colucci]

Hello,

I could not find an appropriate place to file a wish list item, so I
am trying here.

Would it be possible to add a "tab bar" to emacs, containing the open
files? So  I could switch between open files with a single click. And
it would also be more evident what the open files are.

Thanks, farewell

Maurizio Colucci

Re: Tabs

[Thomas Kjosmoen]

Hi,

Take a look at ECB (http://ecb.sf.net)

Good luck

On Aug 22, 2005, at 6:25 AM, Maurizio Colucci wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I could not find an appropriate place to file a wish list item, so I
> am trying here.
>
> Would it be possible to add a "tab bar" to emacs, containing the open
> files? So  I could switch between open files with a single click. And
> it would also be more evident what the open files are.
>
> Thanks, farewell
>
> Maurizio Colucci
>
>
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>

Re: Tabs

[Aaron S. Hawley]

This wish was added to
<http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs-en/WishList>, with a response of
<http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs-en/TabBarMode>.

The wish list at emacswiki.org is not an official or authorative list.

hope that helps,
/a

On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Maurizio Colucci wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I could not find an appropriate place to file a wish list item, so I
> am trying here.
>
> Would it be possible to add a "tab bar" to emacs, containing the open
> files? So  I could switch between open files with a single click. And
> it would also be more evident what the open files are.
>
> Thanks, farewell
>
> Maurizio Colucci

Re: Tabs

[Richard M. Stallman]

    Would it be possible to add a "tab bar" to emacs, containing the open
    files? So  I could switch between open files with a single click. And
    it would also be more evident what the open files are.

People often have dozens, even hundreds, of buffers in one Emacs,
so how would there be room for so many tabs?

Re: Tabs

[Maurizio Colucci]

2005/8/23, Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>:
>     Would it be possible to add a "tab bar" to emacs, containing the open
>     files? So  I could switch between open files with a single click. And
>     it would also be more evident what the open files are.
> 
> People often have dozens, even hundreds, of buffers in one Emacs,
> so how would there be room for so many tabs?

Maybe you could just show the N most recent buffers that fit in the
tabBar. To switch to a less recent buffer you could still use C-c b.

As an added bonus, we could sort the tabBar by recent usage. This way,
having many open files is not so expensive anymore. And frequently
toggling between two files becomes a very cheap operation.

Maurizio

Re: Tabs

[Richard M. Stallman]

    Maybe you could just show the N most recent buffers that fit in the
    tabBar. To switch to a less recent buffer you could still use C-c b.

If someone implements it and people like it, we could install it.