From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Tab bar Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 02:48:17 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87d4p2tuim.fsf@jurta.org> References: <87wsnaso3h.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1207525973 7702 80.91.229.12 (6 Apr 2008 23:52:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2008 23:52:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Koppelman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 07 01:53:25 2008 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 4.50) id 1Jiefs-0002BY-Pq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 01:53:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JiefF-0004BZ-Sx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Apr 2008 19:52:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JiefC-00049f-FD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Apr 2008 19:52:42 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JiefB-00046n-0h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Apr 2008 19:52:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JiefA-00046a-UJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Apr 2008 19:52:40 -0400 Original-Received: from relay03.kiev.sovam.com ([62.64.120.201]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JiefA-0003eW-DW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Apr 2008 19:52:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [83.170.232.243] (helo=smtp.svitonline.com) by relay03.kiev.sovam.com with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1Jief7-0007es-Vp; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 02:52:38 +0300 In-Reply-To: (David Koppelman's message of "Sun, 06 Apr 2008 18:07:45 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-Scanner-Signature: 8abf2c83e696415c40c55866f9369f42 X-DrWeb-checked: yes X-SpamTest-Envelope-From: juri@jurta.org X-SpamTest-Group-ID: 00000000 X-SpamTest-Header: Not Detected X-SpamTest-Info: Profiles 2569 [Apr 04 2008] X-SpamTest-Info: helo_type=3 X-SpamTest-Info: {HEADERS: header Content-Type found without required header Content-Transfer-Encoding} X-SpamTest-Method: none X-SpamTest-Rate: 10 X-SpamTest-Status: Not detected X-SpamTest-Status-Extended: not_detected X-SpamTest-Version: SMTP-Filter Version 3.0.0 [0278], KAS30/Release X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 6.x (1) 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:94532 Archived-At: > I frequently work with new users of Emacs and perhaps their biggest > frustration is switching between buffers (or even just knowing that's > what they need to do). > > If the tab bar by default provided one tab per buffer that would be > great for such users. It is not unusual to have tens or even hundreds buffers in Emacs. Can you imagine a tab bar with hundreds tabs? It would occupy the whole screen. But really switching between buffers is not a problem, because Emacs already provides many different ways to do this: the top-level menu "Buffers", pop-up menu, `C-x b' key, several packages like buff-menu.el, ebuff-menu.el, ibuffer.el, iswitchb.el, ido.el, etc. What Emacs still misses is a feature to group several frames, window configurations, work areas, perspectives (these are different names for almost the same thing) in the tab bar. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/