From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: martin rudalics Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Tabs are ready? -> Let us give a definition of tabs. Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:36:33 +0100 Message-ID: <4F2FAD31.9040702@gmx.at> References: <4F2E5D33.6020406@gmx.at> <4F2E8185.4080706@gmx.at> <4F2EC768.4050603@gmx.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1328524616 30472 80.91.229.3 (6 Feb 2012 10:36:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 10:36:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juri Linkov , Emacs Dev To: Alin Soare Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 06 11:36:55 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RuLwI-0005kU-Bi for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:36:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52764 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RuLwH-0000Jk-SI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:36:49 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:40417) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RuLwA-0000Jf-Ed for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:36:47 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RuLw5-0008ME-V5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:36:42 -0500 Original-Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net ([213.165.64.23]:36153) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RuLw5-0008Lw-Gr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:36:37 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 06 Feb 2012 10:36:36 -0000 Original-Received: from 62-47-36-152.adsl.highway.telekom.at (EHLO [62.47.36.152]) [62.47.36.152] by mail.gmx.net (mp033) with SMTP; 06 Feb 2012 11:36:36 +0100 X-Authenticated: #14592706 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19PDa4Eo81POWejdI6t3GggYMNvDeMGtlDSthxypH G2dIaWTTai8gdT In-Reply-To: X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 213.165.64.23 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:148249 Archived-At: > 1. at initialization it starts a grep and looks for something in background How do you communicate to the tab what the "something" is? > 2. The 'show event should commute to the buffer *grep* This is the standard buffer switching functionality. > 3. when grep finds something, and the tab is hidden , the tab widget to > change the color What sense does it make to have a hidden tab change color? And what kind of event is this in your nomenclature? > 4. The 'close event should kill the *grep* buffer, and the process , if it > had not finished yet > Could you do this using buttons in toolbar or menubar, as you insist ? So far I'd only insist that saving and restoring window configurations should be done with the menubar rather than with a tab. I never ever use toolbars but I think that mail handling routines using the toolbar (could) do such things routinely (inform of new mail, kill a buffer and remove the associated button when mail has been sent , ...). martin