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> From: Robert Cochran <robert+Emacs@cochranmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2019 15:26:10 -0700
> 
> The solution I went with was another value in the tabs frame-parameter
> alist. A new cons with the name `no-auto-name` in the car is used. If
> the cdr is nil, then the behavior we have now remains - the tab handling
> functions will call the value of `tab-bar-tab-name-function` and update
> the name immediately. With a non-nil value, any time
> `tab-bar-tab-name-function` would be called, the existing name is
> instead substituted.

Isn't this unnecessarily complicated?  Why not have the name assigned
by tab-bar-tab-name-function stick instead?

Thanks.