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: Using several frames on TTYs, switching them, terminology: [Is also: Tabbed buffers] Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 02:17:31 -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> <20080127195538.GA5014@muc.de> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1201504670 21613 80.91.229.12 (28 Jan 2008 07:17:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 07:17:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: nickrob@snap.net.nz, miles@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 28 08:18:10 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 1JJOFt-0008Fh-6H for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:18:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JJOFS-0004ga-0C for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 02:17:42 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JJOFN-0004gD-4I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 02:17:37 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JJOFK-0004f2-Nt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 02:17:36 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JJOFK-0004eu-BE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 02:17:34 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JJOFK-0002eB-2n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 02:17:34 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JJOFH-0001Em-Ke; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 02:17:31 -0500 In-reply-to: <20080127195538.GA5014@muc.de> (message from Alan Mackenzie on Sun, 27 Jan 2008 19:55:38 +0000) 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:87685 Archived-At: Again, why the word "tab"? Because that's the word they are generally called, in regard to browsers for instance, and what most computer users will know. The display stratagem seems redundant - we've already got frames and windows - so, would it not be a better idea to have @def{frame sets}, a collection of frames displayed in the same place, any one of which can be selected by its tab? That's not what a tab should do. Tabs should operate within a frame.