From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Tabbed buffers Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 07:40:42 +0900 Message-ID: <87ejc5sf4l.fsf@catnip.gol.com> References: <18330.23354.579245.68671@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1201300914 26465 80.91.229.12 (25 Jan 2008 22:41:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:41:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Nick Roberts Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 25 23:42:14 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 1JIXFT-0006aZ-Aq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Jan 2008 23:42:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JIXF2-0003Xw-Pt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:41:44 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JIXEE-0002yR-9d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:40:54 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JIXEC-0002xX-M3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:40:53 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JIXEC-0002xQ-B8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:40:52 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp11.dentaku.gol.com ([203.216.5.73]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JIXE8-0002GO-Ba; Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:40:48 -0500 Original-Received: from 203-216-99-223.dsl.gol.ne.jp ([203.216.99.223] helo=catnip.gol.com) by smtp11.dentaku.gol.com with esmtpa (Dentaku) id 1JIXE5-0005dI-Dg; Sat, 26 Jan 2008 07:40:45 +0900 Original-Received: by catnip.gol.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B67932F6A; Sat, 26 Jan 2008 07:40:42 +0900 (JST) System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu In-Reply-To: <18330.23354.579245.68671@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> (Nick Roberts's message of "Sat, 26 Jan 2008 10:57:14 +1300") Original-Lines: 16 X-Abuse-Complaints: abuse@gol.com X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:87518 Archived-At: Nick Roberts 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