From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Gtk tabs in emacs, new branch. Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:50:21 -0400 Message-ID: <87bpe3qa6q.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <4BB49A8F.3000307@swipnet.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1270147856 16645 80.91.229.12 (1 Apr 2010 18:50:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 18:50:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel To: Jan =?utf-8?Q?Dj=C3=A4rv?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 01 20:50:52 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 1NxPTf-00015p-9I for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 20:50:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37366 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NxPTb-0002D1-Pu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:50:47 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NxPTN-00024T-1B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:50:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=35314 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NxPTF-0001wd-UI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:50:31 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NxPTD-0002ss-3k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:50:24 -0400 Original-Received: from pantheon-po17.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.73]:39417) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NxPTD-0002sk-0K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:50:23 -0400 Original-Received: from furry (dhcp128036014175.central.yale.edu [128.36.14.175]) (authenticated bits=0) by pantheon-po17.its.yale.edu (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id o31IoLXg022293 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Thu, 1 Apr 2010 14:50:22 -0400 Original-Received: by furry (Postfix, from userid 1000) id F38F1C055; Thu, 1 Apr 2010 14:50:21 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <4BB49A8F.3000307@swipnet.se> ("Jan =?utf-8?Q?Dj=C3=A4rv=22's?= message of "Thu, 01 Apr 2010 15:07:27 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.94 (gnu/linux) X-YaleITSMailFilter: Version 1.2c (attachment(s) not renamed) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/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:123030 Archived-At: Jan Dj=C3=A4rv writes: > Tabs isn't visible internally, it looks like just one frame at the > lisp level. Window configurations are used when switching between > tabs. I think this may cause flicker on slower machines. Making > Emacs use Gtk+ double buffering here would help. I may violate > running Lisp from C restrictions here, but I am not sure. Tabs most > likely introduces new frame sizing errors. I haven't had time to take a look at the implementation, but why do you need to use window configurations? It seems cleaner to treat each tab as a separate frame, at both the C and Lisp levels.