From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Tabbed buffers Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:17:29 -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> <87myqq5p2o.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1201533513 20102 80.91.229.12 (28 Jan 2008 15:18:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 15:18:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: nickrob@snap.net.nz, eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, miles@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 28 16:18:49 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 1JJVka-0001rk-3S for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:18:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JJVk4-0005e6-7B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:17:48 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JJVjz-0005c6-KU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:17:43 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JJVjx-0005a4-Ny for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:17:42 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JJVjx-0005Zu-Jx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:17:41 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca ([206.248.154.182]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JJVjn-0005CK-JJ; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:17:31 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ao8CALuAnUfO+J95dGdsb2JhbACQKgEwmmCBAA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.25,260,1199682000"; d="scan'208";a="13295205" Original-Received: from smtp.pppoe.ca ([65.39.196.238]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP; 28 Jan 2008 10:17:30 -0500 Original-Received: from pastel.home ([206.248.159.121]) by smtp.pppoe.ca (Internet Mail Server v1.0) with ESMTP id IQT07030; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:17:30 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 0C31185C3; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:17:29 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <87myqq5p2o.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (Stephen J. Turnbull's message of "Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:31:11 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:87710 Archived-At: >> All I was pointing out was that if we introduce frame-level tabs, >> then it might make sense to treat the current "multiple-frames on >> a single tty" as tabs rather than as frames. >> >> That seems like an unnecessary complication with no benefit. > The benefit is that the tabs provide a visual cue (which many users > will have experience with) of what alternatives are available via > `next-tab' or `pop-to-tab'. Actually, I was not even thinking of adding a "tabs line" to the tty display. I was talking about the elisp-level. Stefan