From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: Tab bar (was: Neat features in Eclipse editor) Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 09:09:18 -0700 Message-ID: <000101c898c9$bc0ee3c0$c2b22382@us.oracle.com> References: <87wsnaso3h.fsf@jurta.org> <001a01c8984f$f04e49c0$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1207584801 23581 80.91.229.12 (7 Apr 2008 16:13:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 16:13:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 07 18:13:53 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Jityg-0003ok-3Z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 18:13:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jity2-0003TV-T6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 12:13:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jitua-0001AQ-7c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 12:09:36 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JituY-00019a-TY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 12:09:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JituY-00019U-LV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 12:09:34 -0400 Original-Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JituR-00030P-6I; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 12:09:27 -0400 Original-Received: from agmgw1.us.oracle.com (agmgw1.us.oracle.com [152.68.180.212]) by rgminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.6) with ESMTP id m37G9MTn019581; Mon, 7 Apr 2008 10:09:22 -0600 Original-Received: from acsmt351.oracle.com (acsmt351.oracle.com [141.146.40.151]) by agmgw1.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.0/Switch-3.2.0) with ESMTP id m379TfAl006530; Mon, 7 Apr 2008 10:09:21 -0600 Original-Received: from inet-141-146-46-1.oracle.com by acsmt351.oracle.com with ESMTP id 3641638671207584560; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 09:09:20 -0700 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/130.35.178.194) by bhmail.oracle.com (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 09:09:18 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: Thread-Index: AciYwC3SaO0QAP0CQ8qcANqqhVHdiAABiX6w X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:94587 Archived-At: > > Below is a screenshot how this feature currently looks in Emacs > > Unsolicited feedback: Too much wasted horizontal space. > > For the traditional Emacs mode of use, you're probably right. > But if we connect this with a (small) list of preferred buffers > for each window, there will not need to be many tabs in one window. > Then this "wasted" space could be a good thing. I don't see why. For what reason would the wasted space (vertical, as well as horizontal) be a good thing? I don't think it matters much how many tabs there are - even if there is only one tab, the same vertical space is lost. What is gained by having huge tabs widely separated from each other?