From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Welsh Duggan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Two GTK related feature requests Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 22:08:03 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87oew8so3g.fsf@cs.cmu.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1066875019 14411 80.91.224.253 (23 Oct 2003 02:10:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 02:10:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Simon Josefsson Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 23 04:10:17 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ACUvY-0006L5-00 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2003 04:10:16 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ACUvY-0002PD-00 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2003 04:10:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ACUuy-0003rr-Dw for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 22 Oct 2003 22:09:40 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ACUus-0003rm-84 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Oct 2003 22:09:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ACUuM-0002pJ-9j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Oct 2003 22:09:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [205.201.10.244] (helo=maru) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.24) id 1ACUtY-0001Wn-IG; Wed, 22 Oct 2003 22:08:12 -0400 Original-Received: from md5i by maru with local (Exim 4.24) id 1ACUtP-0000EG-L2; Wed, 22 Oct 2003 22:08:03 -0400 Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Wed, 22 Oct 2003 05:25:50 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:17359 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:17359 Richard Stallman 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)