From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Feeling lost without tabs Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 07:27:34 +0300 Message-ID: <834myc64eh.fsf@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1405830492 29864 80.91.229.3 (20 Jul 2014 04:28:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 04:28:12 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 20 06:28:05 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1X8ijD-0008As-Iu for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Jul 2014 06:28:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56363 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X8ijD-0001fm-5s for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Jul 2014 00:28:03 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36264) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X8iix-0001fh-6e for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Jul 2014 00:27:53 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X8iir-00045d-5v for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Jul 2014 00:27:47 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout25.012.net.il ([80.179.55.181]:60729) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X8iiq-00045X-Tz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Jul 2014 00:27:41 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout25.012.net.il by mtaout25.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0N8Z00000T3AMI00@mtaout25.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Jul 2014 07:23:12 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout25.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0N8Z00OKWTION920@mtaout25.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Jul 2014 07:23:12 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.181 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:98811 Archived-At: > Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 11:08:06 +0700 > From: Yuri Khan > Cc: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" > > > I feel a bit lost because emacs doesn't show > > tabs. I work on multiple projects, I get distracted by various things, > > but when I come back to the seat it is the tabs that > > remind me which project I was last working on. > > > > I know C-x C-b pops it up, but involves multiple keys and it also > > takes a a lot of screen real estate. > > > > I'm wondering how others overcame this. > > You might want to have a look at tabbar-mode. That's one way. Another one is to have separate frames dedicated to different projects/activities. You switch to a frame when you need to get back to the project/activity specific to that frame. Each frame in Emacs "prefers" the buffers used in that frame, so switching between buffers within a frame is likely to be easy, without mixing buffers from other frames.