From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Jan D." Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Gtk tabs in emacs, new branch. Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2010 11:34:50 +0200 Message-ID: <4BBEF4BA.2080601@swipnet.se> References: <4BB49A8F.3000307@swipnet.se> <28188551.post@talk.nabble.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1270805796 20607 80.91.229.12 (9 Apr 2010 09:36:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 09:36:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "alin.s" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 09 11:36:35 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O0Ade-0006se-FY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Apr 2010 11:36:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45286 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O0Add-0007ZV-Hq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Apr 2010 05:36:33 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1O0Ac9-0007Gt-KH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Apr 2010 05:35:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=40563 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O0Ac4-0007Fs-M8 for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Apr 2010 05:35:00 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O0Ac2-0004RR-Hp for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Apr 2010 05:34:56 -0400 Original-Received: from smtprelay-b12.telenor.se ([62.127.194.21]:56269) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O0Ac2-0004RF-CB for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Apr 2010 05:34:54 -0400 Original-Received: from ipb2.telenor.se (ipb2.telenor.se [195.54.127.165]) by smtprelay-b12.telenor.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5F281414A for ; Fri, 9 Apr 2010 11:34:52 +0200 (CEST) X-SENDER-IP: [85.225.45.110] X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AjU8AN6RvktV4S1uPGdsb2JhbACDEYRSk1cMAQEBATUtqF2QW4Esgm9uBA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.52,176,1270418400"; d="scan'208";a="61651439" Original-Received: from c-6e2de155.25-1-64736c10.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se (HELO coolsville.localdomain) ([85.225.45.110]) by ipb2.telenor.se with ESMTP; 09 Apr 2010 11:34:52 +0200 Original-Received: from [192.168.77.62] (ns1.operax.com [213.88.244.216]) by coolsville.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 58C197FA01A; Fri, 9 Apr 2010 11:34:51 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (X11/20100317) In-Reply-To: <28188551.post@talk.nabble.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.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:123384 Archived-At: alin.s wrote: > For me a tab will be neither a window configuration, nor a frame, but it > will act according to an initialization function written in lisp. Every > event will have associated a script, like switch, etc. It is useful also for > me to insert an environment of tab-local variables. I don't know if we want tab-local variables. We had frame-local, but they are obsolete now. You have to give a convincing reason for that and what an initialization function and script gives for advantages. > > In this manner, I could do it in 6 months for all. > > If you work on tabs and install a definitive version, please tell me whether > it makes sense for me to implement my version in future, when I have time. > It is too early to tell. The implementation and design is still evolving. Implementations other than for Gtk+ makes sense in any case. Jan D.