Re: Configuring tabs line format

[Ergus <spacibba@aol.com>]

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Attached image of tui bar image. In gtk there is nothing to show, no bat
at all.



On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 12:40:44AM +0200, Ergus wrote:
>Hi Juri:
>
>Some of the recent changes made the tab-bar not to work for me either in
>tui or gui.
>
>emacs -Q
>C-x 6 f file RET
>and there is not tab at all.
>
>In the gtk interface it shows nothing and with -nw it adds an extra row
>where before was the tab-bar.
>
>I have not follow the tab thread recently, does something changed that
>requires special intervention?
>
>On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 01:12:29AM +0300, Juri Linkov wrote:
>>>Is it possible to change how tab-bar is formatted?
>>>For example I'd like to put display-time-string there.
>>
>>Yes, everything is possible.  You need just a few lines of code:
>>
>>(advice-add 'tab-bar-make-keymap-1 :around
>> (lambda (orig-fun)
>>   (append `(keymap (display-time menu-item ,(format-time-string "%H:%M") ignore))
>>           (cdr (funcall orig-fun))))
>> '((name . tab-bar-display-time)))
>>
>>and if you want also a timer to redraw the tab-bar during idle times.
>>
>>This has one problem - the clock is located on the left side.  When
>>Android moved the status bar clock from the right corner to the left,
>>it caused backward-compatibility problems for millions of users, and
>>still it's impossible to move the clock back to the right on Android.
>>
>>But in Emacs everything is extensible and customizable.  So it's easy
>>to move the clock to the right on the tab-bar with another few lines:
>>
>>(advice-add 'tab-bar-make-keymap-1 :around
>> (lambda (orig-fun)
>>   (append (funcall orig-fun)
>>           `((display-time menu-item
>>              ,(concat
>>                (propertize " " 'display '(space :align-to (- right 5)))
>>                (format-time-string "%H:%M"))
>>              ignore))))
>> '((name . tab-bar-display-time)))
>>
>>Now the tab-bar clock looks exactly like the desktop top panel clock:
>>
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