From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Galen Boyer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How get Microsoft Office style FOLDER TABS in Emacs? Date: 26 Nov 2003 14:38:27 -0600 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1069880053 26449 80.91.224.253 (26 Nov 2003 20:54:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 20:54:13 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 26 21:54:11 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 1AP6fr-0006vk-00 for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2003 21:54:11 +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 1AP7ZC-0008BH-0N for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Nov 2003 16:51:22 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsmi-us.news.garr.it!newsmi-eu.news.garr.it!NewsITBone-GARR!irazu.switch.ch!switch.ch!news.belwue.de!feed.news.nacamar.de!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.frii.net!newsfeed.frii.net!140.99.99.194.MISMATCH!newsfeed1.easynews.com!easynews.com!easynews!newscene!novia!novia!sequencer.newscene.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 19 Original-Sender: galenboyer@hotpop.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:118681 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:14622 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:14622 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