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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Documentation of tab-bar-show and friends
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2021 20:47:46 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83pmthk5dp.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87czpi6ypp.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (message from Juri Linkov on Thu, 09 Sep 2021 10:54:37 +0300)

> From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2021 10:54:37 +0300
> 
> >> >   *** The tab bar is frame-local when 'tab-bar-show' is a number.
> >> >   Show/hide the tab bar independently for each frame, according to the
> >> >   value of 'tab-bar-show'.
> >> >
> >> > What does it mean "frame-local" in this case?  Does it mean one should
> >> > use a frame parameter called tab-bar-show?  Or does it mean something
> >> > else?
> >>
> >> This means it affects each frame separately.
> >
> > How does it do that?  It's a good-faith question: I don't understand
> > how you make that happen, except by using frame parameters.
> 
> Indeed, 'toggle-frame-tab-bar' modifies two frame parameters:
> 'tab-bar-lines' and 'tab-bar-lines-keep-state'.

I'm still missing something: how does one go about setting tab bar
independently for several frames?  NEWS says "according to the value
of tab-bar-show", but that variable is global, so setting it affects
all the frames, no?



  reply	other threads:[~2021-09-09 17:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-06  8:12 Documentation of tab-bar-show and friends Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-06 15:24 ` Juri Linkov
2021-09-06 16:00   ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-09  7:54     ` Juri Linkov
2021-09-09 17:47       ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-09-09 18:47         ` Juri Linkov
2021-09-09 19:04           ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-09 19:22             ` Juri Linkov
2021-09-11 12:02               ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-11 19:10                 ` Juri Linkov
2021-09-12  7:03                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-12 16:03                     ` Juri Linkov
2021-09-12 16:23                       ` Eli Zaretskii

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