From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: seberino@spawar.navy.mil (Christian Seberino) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How get Microsoft Office style FOLDER TABS in Emacs? Date: 28 Nov 2003 12:13:39 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1070050524 23091 80.91.224.253 (28 Nov 2003 20:15:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 20:15:24 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 28 21:15:19 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1APp1K-0008I6-01 for ; Fri, 28 Nov 2003 21:15:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1APpyi-0003YF-2B for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Nov 2003 16:16:40 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.112.141.118 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1070050420 8246 127.0.0.1 (28 Nov 2003 20:13:40 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 20:13:40 +0000 (UTC) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:118764 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 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 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:14706 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:14706 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 wrote in message news:... > 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