From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
To: Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Tabbed buffers
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 07:40:42 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ejc5sf4l.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18330.23354.579245.68671@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> (Nick Roberts's message of "Sat, 26 Jan 2008 10:57:14 +1300")
Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz> writes:
> Eclipse gets round this problem by displaying tabbed panes. I know
> that you can do something like this in Emacs using tabbar.el.
> Nowadays though, many applications, e.g., Firefox, use the underlying
> toolkit for this. I wonder if we should add such a feature to Emacs
> at the C level, at least for GTK.
It seems like it would need some thought to work well in Emacs, as
tabbed user interfaces quickly become unusable if there lots of tabs,
and Emacs buffer counts are quite often _way_ over that threshold.
-Miles
--
"Most attacks seem to take place at night, during a rainstorm, uphill,
where four map sheets join." -- Anon. British Officer in WW I
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-25 22:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-25 21:57 Tabbed buffers Nick Roberts
2008-01-25 22:40 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2008-01-25 23:41 ` Nick Roberts
2008-01-26 0:07 ` Miles Bader
2008-01-26 2:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-26 5:03 ` Miles Bader
2008-01-26 7:24 ` Thomas Lord
2008-01-26 19:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-26 14:38 ` Chong Yidong
2008-01-27 0:44 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-27 1:21 ` Miles Bader
2008-01-27 1:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-27 16:04 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-27 1:50 ` Nick Roberts
2008-01-27 1:58 ` Miles Bader
2008-01-27 2:10 ` Nick Roberts
2008-01-27 0:45 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-27 4:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-27 16:13 ` T. V. Raman
2008-01-27 20:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-27 20:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-27 23:31 ` Robert J. Chassell
2008-01-28 2:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-28 7:17 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-28 8:31 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-01-28 15:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-28 17:22 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-01-28 18:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-28 19:18 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-01-28 21:30 ` Nick Roberts
2008-01-29 6:53 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-01-29 7:19 ` Nick Roberts
2008-01-29 8:08 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-01-28 21:32 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-28 23:05 ` Bastien Guerry
2008-01-30 6:16 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-30 7:53 ` Bastien Guerry
2008-01-28 21:32 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-29 7:10 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-01-30 6:16 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-01 3:50 ` T. V. Raman
2008-02-01 18:26 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-03 2:06 ` T. V. Raman
2008-02-03 16:18 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-27 19:55 ` Using several frames on TTYs, switching them, terminology: [Is also: Tabbed buffers] Alan Mackenzie
2008-01-27 20:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-27 21:33 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-01-28 4:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-02-01 3:32 ` T. V. Raman
2008-01-27 21:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-27 21:50 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-01-28 2:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-28 7:17 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-28 15:42 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-01-28 21:32 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-26 9:14 ` Tabbed buffers Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-26 11:36 ` Robert J. Chassell
2008-01-26 9:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-27 0:12 ` Nick Roberts
2008-01-27 4:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-27 4:48 ` Nick Roberts
2008-01-27 8:05 ` Is there any document about Emacs implementation (C source code)? brianjiang
2008-01-27 9:40 ` dhruva
2008-01-27 20:32 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-01-27 20:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-27 17:18 ` Tabbed buffers Eli Zaretskii
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