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: Neat features in Eclipse editor Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:33:57 -0400 Message-ID: References: <873aqia0eh.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <873aqiw4xm.fsf@jurta.org> <87iqzb1ukk.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> <874pauwr0n.fsf@panix.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1206495256 32105 80.91.229.12 (26 Mar 2008 01:34:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 01:34:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Rajappa Iyer Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 26 02:34:45 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 1JeKXK-00045V-Ik for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Mar 2008 02:34:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JeKWj-0004qA-6c for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:34:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JeKWf-0004oc-HW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:34:01 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JeKWd-0004lm-Qx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:34:00 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JeKWd-0004lh-MF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:33:59 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca ([206.248.154.182] helo=ironport2-out.teksavvy.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JeKWd-0006QB-Au for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:33:59 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ah8FAOdE6UdMCrTo/2dsb2JhbACBWqkU X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.25,555,1199682000"; d="scan'208";a="16663592" Original-Received: from smtp.pppoe.ca (HELO smtp.teksavvy.com) ([65.39.196.238]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP; 25 Mar 2008 21:33:58 -0400 Original-Received: from pastel.home ([76.10.180.232]) by smtp.teksavvy.com (Internet Mail Server v1.0) with ESMTP id GEH11758; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:33:58 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id B8C2F7F9E; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:33:57 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <874pauwr0n.fsf@panix.com> (Rajappa Iyer's message of "Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:19:20 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (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:93478 Archived-At: >> In Eclipse, a list of tabs is associated with a specific window >> and each tab selects a buffer in that window. >> >> That seems to be the natural feature for tabs. >> Would someone like to implement window tabs as a UI feature? > I might be missing something, but isn't tabbar.el sufficient? > http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/TabBarMode It might be a good idea to include this in Emacs. We should be able to place a tabbar at any level of the window-tree by placing the tabbars inside their own window. I.e. a frame-level tabbar (to allow switching between different window-configurations) could be obtained by slitting the frame as +-----------------------------+ | single-line tabbar window | +------------+----------------+ | | | | | | | window | other | | | window | | | | | | | +------------+----------------+ Of course, this may require some tweaks to work right: e.g. C-x 1 should not throw away the tabbar. -- Stefan