From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David De La Harpe Golden Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Gtk tabs in emacs, new branch. Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 16:40:57 +0100 Message-ID: <4BC1ED89.3080607@harpegolden.net> References: <30298845.656931270806476838.JavaMail.www@wwinf4631> <4BBF0C6C.7000909@swipnet.se> <87ljcwaxfv.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <4BC016DA.60400@swipnet.se> <87d3y63gzt.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87mxxanofa.fsf@freebits.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1271000511 1810 80.91.229.12 (11 Apr 2010 15:41:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 15:41:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Tobias C. Rittweiler" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 11 17:41:50 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O0zHj-0005od-Ti for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Apr 2010 17:41:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51640 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O0zHb-0004gx-5T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Apr 2010 11:41:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1O0zHW-0004gb-1e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Apr 2010 11:41:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=40060 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O0zHU-0004gO-7M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Apr 2010 11:41:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O0zHS-0003af-Cm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Apr 2010 11:41:03 -0400 Original-Received: from harpegolden.net ([65.99.215.13]:55740) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O0zHS-0003aU-6v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Apr 2010 11:41:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [87.198.54.140] (87-198-54-140.ptr.magnet.ie [87.198.54.140]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "David De La Harpe Golden", Issuer "David De La Harpe Golden Personal CA rev 3" (verified OK)) by harpegolden.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 792619584; Sun, 11 Apr 2010 16:41:00 +0100 (IST) User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20091109) In-Reply-To: <87mxxanofa.fsf@freebits.de> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:123480 Archived-At: Tobias C. Rittweiler wrote: > I've been following the discussion only cursorly, so please excuse any > ignorance on my part, but let me chime in with a real-life use case for > the 2nd variant: > > In Common Lisp you can enter the debugger on a per thread basis. So at > the moment, every time an error is signaled in a thread, a new buffer > displaying a new debugger instance pops up > Now there may be existing ways to improve that situation, but I think > mode-specific tabs would fit really well: for each new error in a > thread, a new tab will be pushed onto the existing tab list of the > debugger window. > I don't think that in paricular is a strong a use case for juri's 2. relative to tabs-for-3rd-axis-for-window-splits as such (If you haven't been following the thread closely admittedly the distinction may be unclear): Each new debugger instance buffer could be opened in a new window, a window that's just put in a tab split with the other debugger instance windows (which might need some window group management, yes).