From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai Grossjohann Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs for everything? Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 12:56:05 +0100 Message-ID: <86hdn83m3u.fsf@ketchup.de.uu.net> References: <87pt2ej98v.fsf@node1.ddorf.de> <87zn1g2t5j.fld@barrow.com> <876540gxzw.fld@barrow.com> <87653u4x4t.fld@barrow.com> <86sm6voy32.fsf@ketchup.de.uu.net> <87llcmupnv.fld@barrow.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1101729434 22117 80.91.229.6 (29 Nov 2004 11:57:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 11:57:14 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 29 12:57:10 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CYk9V-0003Zj-00 for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 12:57:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CYkIu-0003re-FP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 07:06:52 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CYkIe-0003os-Ty for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 07:06:37 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CYkId-0003oH-N4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 07:06:35 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CYkId-0003nw-9t for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 07:06:35 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=main.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CYk8k-0000eC-Ml for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 06:56:23 -0500 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CYk8k-0005JF-00 for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 12:56:22 +0100 Original-Received: from ketchup.de.uu.net ([139.4.38.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 12:56:22 +0100 Original-Received: from kai by ketchup.de.uu.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 12:56:22 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 41 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ketchup.de.uu.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:f9ua9H7A6H0ojuDpcXz6vPRT/lo= X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:22421 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:22421 floyd@barrow.com (Floyd L. Davidson) writes: > After looking at that web page, I'll admit that I just don't see > much value in what it does compared to using the FvwmPager module > with simply a large number of virtual desktops. Hm. This seems to be very difficult to answer, since desktops and tabbed windows are so different. Most of the time, my screen layout consists of a full-height window in the left hald of the screen and another full-height window in the right half. In this setup, I could put an FvwmTabs window on the left and another FvwmTabs window on the right, and then I could put multiple xterms into each, and then I'd be able to choose which xterm to see on the left and which xterm to see on the right. This is not possible with virtual desktops. > I didn't look into exactly how the tab system decides what label > to apply in each tab. Hopefully it is something useful, though > in fact I have yet to see one that is for me. I don't relate > short names (or icons) to what a program is being used for. In > particular I may have several similar projects going, all of > which use some of the same programs. Hence just a program name > is no clue at all to which tab I might be interested in. You could make one FvwmTabs window for each project. Then you automatically know which project each program belongs to, since you know which tab it is in. (That would be similar to placing the relevant windows on the same desktop.) > But aside from that aspect, the tab system is just too > restricted. I don't want to switch between projects on the same > screen or worse yet the same window. Well, you get the tabs in addition to virtual desktops, so you only gain features, you don't lose any. Kai