From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: joakim@verona.se Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Gtk tabs in emacs, new branch. Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 13:01:20 +0200 Message-ID: References: <30298845.656931270806476838.JavaMail.www@wwinf4631> <4BBF0C6C.7000909@swipnet.se> <4BC01768.6070804@swipnet.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1270897345 6931 80.91.229.12 (10 Apr 2010 11:02:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 11:02:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs development discussions To: Lennart Borgman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 10 13:02:23 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O0YSD-0000Gg-Uj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Apr 2010 13:02:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46032 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O0YSD-0002RF-F1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Apr 2010 07:02:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1O0YRw-0002KD-Ov for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Apr 2010 07:02:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=49482 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O0YRe-0002CQ-7N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Apr 2010 07:02:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O0YRI-0005Ed-TM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Apr 2010 07:01:45 -0400 Original-Received: from iwfs.imcode.com ([82.115.149.64]:46803 helo=gate.verona.se) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O0YRI-0005EN-Fl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Apr 2010 07:01:24 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (IDENT:1005@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gate.verona.se (8.13.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id o3AB1KoX002314; Sat, 10 Apr 2010 13:01:21 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Lennart Borgman's message of "Sat, 10 Apr 2010 12:18:08 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.90 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 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:123431 Archived-At: Lennart Borgman writes: > 2010/4/10 : >> Lennart Borgman writes: >> >>> On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 8:15 AM, Jan Dj=E4rv wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> Lennart Borgman skrev 2010-04-10 03.47: >>>>> >>>>> On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 3:22 AM, Stefan Monnier >>>>> =A0wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Tabs may seem like a good idea to switch between different >>>>>> window-configurations, >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Switching between named window configuration seems like a good idea - >>>>> but is tabs actually needed for that? >>>> >>>> Needed, no. =A0The best GUI for it? =A0Probably. >>> >>> >>> So there are two parts of this: >>> >>> - Implementing tabs. >>> - Better handling of window configurations, probably including naming, >>> save and restore etc. >> >> Dont we have this already in "winner" or "winring" or some of the >> existing window configuration packages? > > > I don't thijnk so. I have not used winring.el, but it looks like it > can name window configurations. However it is not a part of Emacs. > > None of them can save and restore window configurations from file > which I think is essential. I am thinking about adding that to > winsav.el. Most of it is already there, but I do not remember how far > we got with a printed representation of window configurations. Anyone > remember? > That sounds cool! There was a read representation added for hash tables recenlty, will that help? >> Then again, window configurations could be further enhanced by >> finishing one of the "window group" proposals discussed some time >> ago on this list, but that nots necesary for tabs. > > > I think it is more essential than tabs. It can be used without tabs > and it enhances tabs. Yes, but development is stalled. Maybe I should try to revive my proposal to the point of a bzr branch, maybe then others can bring their proposals forward. > >>> Could we please move the second part to the main developing branch so >>> we can take advantage of that part as soon as possible? --=20 Joakim Verona