Re: Two GTK related feature requests

[Michael Welsh Duggan <md5i@cs.cmu.edu>]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

>     * "Tabbed editing".  People using modern web browsers will know what I
>       mean.  It is very addictive.  Essentially it would add buttons at
>       the top of the Emacs window, one button for each buffer.  Clicking
>       on one button will change focus to that buffer.  Each tab may also
>       have a X button that kill that buffer.  There are several details to
>       be sorted out, e.g., should the tab be per-window or per-frame?
>
> It is clear how this would work when you have just a few buffers, but
> what about when you have 50?  We need to finish designing this feature
> before implementing it.

It would make more sense to me to have tabs represent different
"frames" instead of buffers.  In this manner one could switch between
frames in a single actual frame (much like tty frames).  Of course,
one shouldn't disallow the creation of "real" extra frames, and one
should probably have a way to have a frame or frames not show up in
the tabs.

-- 
Michael Welsh Duggan
(md5i@cs.cmu.edu)