How get Microsoft Office style FOLDER TABS in Emacs?

How get Microsoft Office style FOLDER TABS in Emacs?

[Christian Seberino]

Emacs has the option of having different buffers appear in different
windows(frames) or in same window(frame) all at same time.

I like M$ Office's idea of having NAMES of files visible at bottom of
window like a folder tab.  If you want to switch buffers you just
have to mouse click on file name desired.

Is it possible to do something like this in Emacs?

Chris

Re: How get Microsoft Office style FOLDER TABS in Emacs?

[Bruce Ingalls]

Christian Seberino wrote:

> I like M$ Office's idea of having NAMES of files visible at bottom of
> window like a folder tab. 

You can get tab-mode.el and other useful tools from EMacro Libs, at
<url: http://emacro.sourceforge.net/ >

Re: How get Microsoft Office style FOLDER TABS in Emacs?

[Christian Seberino]

Bruce

Thanks for info.  EMacro appears to be a tool to design different
.emacs files easily. Is that right?
Is tab-mode.el only found in EMacro
or is it part of Emacs itself already?

Chris

Bruce Ingalls <bingalls@fit-zones.NO-SPAM.com> wrote in message news:<e26xb.285735$pT1.31442@twister.nyc.rr.com>...
> Christian Seberino wrote:
> 
> > I like M$ Office's idea of having NAMES of files visible at bottom of
> > window like a folder tab. 
> 
> You can get tab-mode.el and other useful tools from EMacro Libs, at
> <url: http://emacro.sourceforge.net/ >

Re: How get Microsoft Office style FOLDER TABS in Emacs?

[Bruce Ingalls]

Christian Seberino wrote:
> Bruce
> 
> Thanks for info.  EMacro appears to be a tool to design different
> .emacs files easily. Is that right?
No, it is a kitchen-sink .emacs, that makes Emacs easier & more powerful.

> Is tab-mode.el only found in EMacro
> or is it part of Emacs itself already?
tab-mode.el was developed independently of EMacro, and works 
stand-alone. It is not (yet) bundled with Emacs.
Note also that XEmacs supports tabs.

> 
> Chris
> 
> Bruce Ingalls <bingalls@fit-zones.NO-SPAM.com> wrote in message news:<e26xb.285735$pT1.31442@twister.nyc.rr.com>...
> 
>>Christian Seberino wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I like M$ Office's idea of having NAMES of files visible at bottom of
>>>window like a folder tab. 
>>
>>You can get tab-mode.el and other useful tools from EMacro Libs, at
>><url: http://emacro.sourceforge.net/ >

Re: How get Microsoft Office style FOLDER TABS in Emacs?

[kgold]

seberino@spawar.navy.mil (Christian Seberino) writes:
> Emacs has the option of having different buffers appear in different
> windows(frames) or in same window(frame) all at same time.
> 
> I like M$ Office's idea of having NAMES of files visible at bottom of
> window like a folder tab.  If you want to switch buffers you just
> have to mouse click on file name desired.
> 
> Is it possible to do something like this in Emacs?

The closest I can think of is 

	M-x speedbar

and then Displays - Buffers

I usually use it to display files, where you can then tree down into
source code functions.

-- 

Re: How get Microsoft Office style FOLDER TABS in Emacs?

[Christian Seberino]

kgold

Thanks!
Speedbar lots very nice!  It lets you jump between
different files quickly.  What
did you mean by "Displays - Buffers"?? IS that
a speedbar setting?

Chris


kgold@watson.ibm.com (kgold) wrote in message news:<bq2qtn$70e$1@news.btv.ibm.com>...
> seberino@spawar.navy.mil (Christian Seberino) writes:
> > Emacs has the option of having different buffers appear in different
> > windows(frames) or in same window(frame) all at same time.
> > 
> > I like M$ Office's idea of having NAMES of files visible at bottom of
> > window like a folder tab.  If you want to switch buffers you just
> > have to mouse click on file name desired.
> > 
> > Is it possible to do something like this in Emacs?
> 
> The closest I can think of is 
> 
> 	M-x speedbar
> 
> and then Displays - Buffers
> 
> I usually use it to display files, where you can then tree down into
> source code functions.
> 
> --

Re: How get Microsoft Office style FOLDER TABS in Emacs?

[Klaus Berndl]

When you find speedbar nice then maybe you find ECB nice too - maybe even more
nice (or less ;-)... ECB is the Emacs Code Browser which let you browse files
and code-contents.

>From the homepage at http://ecb.sourceforge.net:

ECB stands for "Emacs Code Browser" and is a source code browser for (X)Emacs.
It is a global minor-mode which displays a couple of windows that can be used
to browse directories, files and file-contents like methods and variables. It
supports source-code parsing for semantic-supported languages like Java, C,
C++, Elisp and Scheme as well as for source-types supported "only" by imenu or
etags (e.g. perl, TeX, LaTeX etc.).

Here is an ascii-screenshot of what ECB offers you:

------------------------------------------------------------------
|              |                                                 |
| Directories  |                                                 |
|              |                                                 |
|--------------|                                                 |
|              |                                                 |
| Sources      |                                                 |
|              |                                                 |
|--------------|                 Edit-window(s)                  |
|              |        (can be splitted in two windows)         |
| Methods/Vars |                                                 |
|              |                                                 |
|--------------|                                                 |
|              |                                                 |
| History      |                                                 |
|              |                                                 |
------------------------------------------------------------------
|                                                                |
|                 Compilation-window (optional)                  |
|                                                                |
------------------------------------------------------------------

This is only one example-layout - ECB offers a lot of different layouts.

Just go to the screenshot section of ECB-homepage and see if you like it...

Ciao,
Klaus

On 28 Nov 2003, Christian Seberino wrote:



>  kgold
>  
>  Thanks!
>  Speedbar lots very nice!  It lets you jump between
>  different files quickly.  What
>  did you mean by "Displays - Buffers"?? IS that
>  a speedbar setting?
>  
>  Chris
>  
>  
>  kgold@watson.ibm.com (kgold) wrote in message
>  news:<bq2qtn$70e$1@news.btv.ibm.com>...
> > seberino@spawar.navy.mil (Christian Seberino) writes:
> > > Emacs has the option of having different buffers appear in different
> > > windows(frames) or in same window(frame) all at same time.
> > > 
> > > I like M$ Office's idea of having NAMES of files visible at bottom of
> > > window like a folder tab.  If you want to switch buffers you just
> > > have to mouse click on file name desired.
> > > 
> > > Is it possible to do something like this in Emacs?
> > 
> > The closest I can think of is 
> > 
> > 	M-x speedbar
> > 
> > and then Displays - Buffers
> > 
> > I usually use it to display files, where you can then tree down into
> > source code functions.
> > 
> > --

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Re: How get Microsoft Office style FOLDER TABS in Emacs?

[Galen Boyer]

On 26 Nov 2003, seberino@spawar.navy.mil wrote:

> I like M$ Office's idea of having NAMES of files visible at
> bottom of window like a folder tab.  If you want to switch
> buffers you just have to mouse click on file name desired.
> 
> Is it possible to do something like this in Emacs?

Its a bit too cumbersome to have this happen with Emacs, because
Emacs allows one to open up as many files as one could want.
There isn't a scalability issue that one finds with Window's view
of how things operate.  One thing I used to use, when I was
looking for that type of functionality though, was

        Ctrl-LeftClick, or to be more emacs precise,
        C-down-mouse-1

-- 
Galen Boyer

Re: How get Microsoft Office style FOLDER TABS in Emacs?

[Christian Seberino]

Galen

Thanks,  This looks very useful.  Is there any way to do the
same thing without the mouse and/or redefine mouse buttons
that make this happen??? e.g. right mouse button without
Ctrl??

Chris

Galen Boyer <galenboyer@hotpop.com> wrote in message news:<u8ym2uawo.fsf@standardandpoors.com>...
> On 26 Nov 2003, seberino@spawar.navy.mil wrote:
> 
> > I like M$ Office's idea of having NAMES of files visible at
> > bottom of window like a folder tab.  If you want to switch
> > buffers you just have to mouse click on file name desired.
> > 
> > Is it possible to do something like this in Emacs?
> 
> Its a bit too cumbersome to have this happen with Emacs, because
> Emacs allows one to open up as many files as one could want.
> There isn't a scalability issue that one finds with Window's view
> of how things operate.  One thing I used to use, when I was
> looking for that type of functionality though, was
> 
>         Ctrl-LeftClick, or to be more emacs precise,
>         C-down-mouse-1

Re: How get Microsoft Office style FOLDER TABS in Emacs?

[Galen Boyer]

On 28 Nov 2003, seberino@spawar.navy.mil wrote:
> Galen
> 
> Thanks,  This looks very useful.  Is there any way to do the
> same thing without the mouse and/or redefine mouse buttons
> that make this happen??? e.g. right mouse button without
> Ctrl??

I wouldn't try to do anymore with that functionality.  If you
want a non-mouse solution, look at ibuffer.  It has loads of
customizable functionality to handle your buffer listing.
-- 
Galen Boyer

Re: How get Microsoft Office style FOLDER TABS in Emacs?

[Kai Grossjohann]

seberino@spawar.navy.mil (Christian Seberino) writes:

> Thanks,  This looks very useful.  Is there any way to do the
> same thing without the mouse and/or redefine mouse buttons
> that make this happen??? e.g. right mouse button without
> Ctrl??

I second the suggestion to try ibuffer.  To get a glimpse of what it
can do, try M-x electric-buffer-list RET.

Another useful feature is iswitchb.  It allows you to type substrings
of buffer names to narrow down the search.  Try it ;-)

I now have these tabs thingies in Eclipse, and I know that I won't
miss them when I go back to Emacs.

Kai