From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Ekstrand Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: basic question: going back to dired Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 06:40:48 -0500 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87hca5yncv.fsf@jehiel.elehack.net> References: <66d0c5e3-95d3-4c9b-a602-273375d6cf1f@j22g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> <9bc17528-8ea9-49f7-8e9d-07f5ede91415@p31g2000prf.googlegroups.com> <87bq0e1bmu.fsf@jehiel.elehack.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1217594526 1279 80.91.229.12 (1 Aug 2008 12:42:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 12:42:06 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 01 14:42:55 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KOtyA-0001Gg-Te for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:42:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49224 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KOtxF-0006M0-3F for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Aug 2008 08:41:57 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 28 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: N8w1zDuSd4zhmZ454raJDg.user.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:CLazzZHeS9SISwhBq+/isRb2V0I= User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:160775 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: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:56123 Archived-At: Nikolaj Schumacher writes: > Michael Ekstrand wrote: > >> It is not a tab. If you have "tabs" going in Emacs (which XEmacs seems >> to support in some fashion), or are in some other editor with tabs, they >> are equivalent Emacs' "windows", not buffers. You could view the same >> buffer in multiple tabs. What then? > > I don't think you're right here. Looking at Firefox, for instance, tabs > there don't correspond to Emacs windows at all. Each Firefox window has > a tab-bar that switch between several tabs, just as each Emacs window > can switch between several buffers. It depends on how tabs are implemented and conceived of. If that is how they are done, you may be right. When Vim added tabs, however, each frame (of which you could only have one, actually) could have tabs, and each tab had a set of windows, and each window could view a buffer. Tabs behaved more like Emacs frames do when on a terminal, except that there was a horizontal listing of them at the top of the screen. - Michael -- mouse, n: A device for pointing at the xterm in which you want to type. Confused by the strange files? I cryptographically sign my messages. For more information see .