From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "T. V. Raman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Tabbed buffers Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:50:40 -0800 Message-ID: <18338.38672.698049.105641@gargle.gargle.HOWL> References: <18330.23354.579245.68671@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <87ejc5sf4l.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <18330.29609.396872.678539@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <87wspxqwjv.fsf@catnip.gol.com> Reply-To: raman@users.sf.net 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 1201837856 27172 80.91.229.12 (1 Feb 2008 03:50:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 03:50:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, nickrob@snap.net.nz, rms@gnu.org, miles@gnu.org To: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 01 04:51:16 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 1JKmvs-0005gK-8d for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Feb 2008 04:51:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JKmvQ-0005lC-SH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:50:48 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JKmvM-0005kv-6u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:50:44 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JKmvL-0005ki-8H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:50:43 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JKmvL-0005kf-3F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:50:43 -0500 Original-Received: from qmta01.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.16]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JKmvK-0001H7-Te for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:50:43 -0500 Original-Received: from OMTA02.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.19]) by QMTA01.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id jnuf1Y00A0QuhwU511Dl00; Fri, 01 Feb 2008 03:50:40 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([71.202.191.236]) by OMTA02.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id k3qg1Y00J56Ur8v3N00000; Fri, 01 Feb 2008 03:50:42 +0000 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=mDV3o1hIAAAA:8 a=2z1OXlWFAAAA:8 a=sXENzLvzlDBZmFWxGbsA:9 a=z37fwp_rqRVkwkc-ukQA:7 a=FGBX3OaXPTAgDiK8KAkGLy-KQH0A:4 a=ii61gXl28gQA:10 a=MSl-tDqOz04A:10 a=M5NflSamuk0A:10 Original-Received: by localhost (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B538912A4871; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:50:40 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM alpha-478 under Emacs 23.0.50.11 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) x-attribution: tvr X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:87904 Archived-At: Doing this on Linux would also have the nice side-effect of allowing tty users to place each frameset on a different virtual console, something which would make it easier to logically separate out frames. >>>>> "Stefan" == Stefan Monnier writes: >>> But getting rid of them would just mean trouble. >> I would certainly object. Stefan> Stefan> Richard was talking about a suggestion of mine, which Stefan> was not to remove the frame functionality on ttys. Stefan> How can people even expect me to suggest throwing Stefan> away such a feature? Stefan> Stefan> All I was pointing out was that if we introduce Stefan> frame-level tabs, then it might make sense to treat Stefan> the current "multiple-frames on a single tty" as tabs Stefan> rather than as frames. So we may want to refine the Stefan> notion of tty frames so that each tty gets exactly 1 Stefan> frame, and it can then multiplex several tabs on that Stefan> frame: the end result is the same featureset as Stefan> before, but in a way that more closely matches the Stefan> semantics of frames&tabs under GUIs (where only one Stefan> of the tabs of a frame can be displayed at a time, Stefan> just like frames on a single tty). Stefan> Stefan> Stefan> Stefan Stefan> Stefan> Stefan> _______________________________________________ Stefan> Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org Stefan> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel -- Best Regards, --raman Email: raman@users.sf.net WWW: http://emacspeak.sf.net/raman/ AIM: emacspeak GTalk: tv.raman.tv@gmail.com PGP: http://emacspeak.sf.net/raman/raman-almaden.asc Google: tv+raman IRC: irc://irc.freenode.net/#emacs