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 18:03:36 +0100 Message-ID: <4F3007E8.6090209@gmx.at> References: <4F2E5D33.6020406@gmx.at> <4F2E8185.4080706@gmx.at> <4F2EC73A.8020905@gmx.at> <4F2FACF8.2040304@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 1328547838 27401 80.91.229.3 (6 Feb 2012 17:03:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 17:03:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juri Linkov , Juanma Barranquero , Emacs Dev To: Alin Soare Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 06 18:03:56 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 1RuRys-0008RJ-PD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:03:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59721 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RuRys-0002ge-20 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:03:54 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:58281) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RuRym-0002gP-AD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:03:52 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RuRye-00014p-IF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:03:48 -0500 Original-Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net ([213.165.64.23]:52132) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RuRye-00014i-7j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:03:40 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 06 Feb 2012 17:03:38 -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 (mp031) with SMTP; 06 Feb 2012 18:03:38 +0100 X-Authenticated: #14592706 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18Lm4UtUZgLx1EnXBdkulQwTLqqXe3T8PXUs/0aVb diVDavZVvTBL2S 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:148273 Archived-At: >> So if the last tab action we activated was such >> a save we probably shouldn't highlight the associated tab. But then >> moving ("commuting") to the next tab will happen without visual feedback >> from where we started moving. Think of doing C-PgDn and the next tab is >> a "restore window configuration" tab. > > > In order to be able to restore a window configuration you have to save it > first. Which has been done as described in the text above. >>> Every time when you commute to a tab, the lisp function associated to the >>> 'show event is called. >> In firefox moving to the next tab means showing the associated page. >> What is the 'show event for "restore window configuration"? > > > Restoring the saved window configuration, for example. Showing another buffer in a window is reversible. You can easily switch back to the buffer shown before. Restoring a window configuration is irreversible unless you save the current configuration when restoring. Providing such behavior via a "show" event is confusing at least. martin