From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Gtk tabs in emacs, new branch. Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 21:44:39 +0300 Message-ID: <83iq7vxkdk.fsf@gnu.org> References: <30298845.656931270806476838.JavaMail.www@wwinf4631> <4BBF0C6C.7000909@swipnet.se> <87ljcwaxfv.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <4BC016DA.60400@swipnet.se> <87d3y63gzt.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <4BC1EAB2.6080900@harpegolden.net> <87zl18fadw.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87d3y43wg7.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <83k4sbxmhf.fsf@gnu.org> <4BC4B4AB.6070204@swipnet.se> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1271184312 11136 80.91.229.12 (13 Apr 2010 18:45:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 18:45:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, stephen@xemacs.org, david@harpegolden.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jan_Dj=E4rv?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 13 20:45:09 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 1O1l6g-0002Dz-Cz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 20:45:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34991 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O1l6Y-0006cl-Iv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:44:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1O1l6N-0006aT-0t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:44:47 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=55731 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O1l6K-0006Xp-2E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:44:46 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O1l6B-0008G0-Mq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:44:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:34775) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O1l6B-0008Fn-FA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:44:35 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0L0T00100W1C6W00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 21:44:32 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.127.74.198]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0L0T00FGBW2736O0@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 21:44:32 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <4BC4B4AB.6070204@swipnet.se> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) 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:123591 Archived-At: > Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 20:15:07 +0200 > From: Jan Dj=E4rv > CC: "Stephen J. Turnbull" , juri@jurta.org,= =20 > emacs-devel@gnu.org, david@harpegolden.net >=20 > >> > A "window" in Emacs is the physical area of the screen in whi= ch a > >> > buffer is displayed. > >> > >> That's a restriction of Emacs, not of the concept of window, tho= ugh. > >> Emacs is effectively a tiling window manager (within each frame)= . > >=20 > > Actually, there is no such restriction. For example, the tool ba= r, in > > its Emacs implementation, is just a specialized window. >=20 > Not for the Gtk tool bar. That doesn't matter. My point is that a "window" in Emacs is not jus= t for displaying a buffer. The fact that the Gtk build does not use this feature does not diminish the feature in any way.