From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: Tab bar Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 17:21:05 -0700 Message-ID: <000001c8990e$6f704640$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> References: <87wsnaso3h.fsf@jurta.org> <87d4p2tuim.fsf@jurta.org> <47FA3EBE.5040600@gmail.com> <87ve2t2rte.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1207614128 9782 80.91.229.12 (8 Apr 2008 00:22:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 00:22:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "'Juri Linkov'" , Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 08 02:22:40 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Jj1bh-0005j5-Ul for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Apr 2008 02:22:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jj1b4-000582-Mr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:21:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jj1b0-00056o-HT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:21:54 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jj1az-00053M-1n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:21:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jj1ay-000538-P1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:21:52 -0400 Original-Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jj1ay-0000kp-Fo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:21:52 -0400 Original-Received: from rgmgw2.us.oracle.com (rgmgw2.us.oracle.com [138.1.186.111]) by rgminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.6) with ESMTP id m380LnX1026481; Mon, 7 Apr 2008 18:21:49 -0600 Original-Received: from acsmt350.oracle.com (acsmt350.oracle.com [141.146.40.150]) by rgmgw2.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.2.4) with ESMTP id m370skF5024662; Mon, 7 Apr 2008 18:21:48 -0600 Original-Received: from inet-141-146-46-1.oracle.com by acsmt350.oracle.com with ESMTP id 3642040361207614066; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:21:06 -0700 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/141.144.72.176) by bhmail.oracle.com (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:21:05 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <87ve2t2rte.fsf@jurta.org> Thread-Index: AciZCVzBmmg/VFF+TbqjFAQl8n7O7AAA9Wrg X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:94653 Archived-At: > > I am not sure how that could work and look. One important > > thing about tabs IMO is the ability to use C-tab/C-S-tab > > to switch tab. > > There is also a feature that after pressing it > displays a list of all tabs, navigates to the next > tab in this temporarily displayed list while you still > hold the Ctrl key, and releasing the Ctrl key switches > to the selected tab. It seems this is not possible > to implement in Emacs, since it requires distinguishing > between key press and release events. Thank goodness. In any case, possible or not, count me as one voice against giving yet another interpretation to TAB (C-TAB, C-S-TAB, ...) in Emacs. Enough already. It doesn't matter if other programs have found 187 other "standard" uses for TAB - TAB has enough behaviors in Emacs. We should save use of modifiers with TAB for things closely related to TAB's existing behaviors.