From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Tabbed buffers Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 19:44:49 -0500 Message-ID: References: <18330.23354.579245.68671@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <87ejc5sf4l.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <18330.29609.396872.678539@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <87wspxqwjv.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87wspwslce.fsf@stupidchicken.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1201394713 3675 80.91.229.12 (27 Jan 2008 00:45:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 00:45:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: nickrob@snap.net.nz, miles@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 27 01:45:33 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 1JIveO-00037d-CE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Jan 2008 01:45:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JIvdx-0003lL-Tj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Jan 2008 19:45:05 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JIvdk-0003eM-44 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Jan 2008 19:44:52 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JIvdi-0003dp-R1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Jan 2008 19:44:51 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JIvdi-0003dk-Jp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Jan 2008 19:44:50 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JIvdi-0001uW-GM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Jan 2008 19:44:50 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JIvdh-0008Sl-Qp; Sat, 26 Jan 2008 19:44:49 -0500 In-reply-to: <87wspwslce.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (message from Chong Yidong on Sat, 26 Jan 2008 09:38:41 -0500) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:87610 Archived-At: Here's another approach. Currently, frames can be iconified or normal/deiconified. We could add a third state, "unselected tab", which also contains information about a "master" frame that is the selected tab to which the unselected tab is attached. That way, a "selected" tab is a frame in its normal or iconified states, and an "unselected" tab is a frame in the "unselected tab" state. I think the most natural thing is for tabs to exist just within a frame, and for each tab to have a window configuration. Thus, switching to another tab would select its window configuraton. This is natural and already implemented.