From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Tab bar Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 02:28:54 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <877if98frd.fsf@jurta.org> References: <87wsnaso3h.fsf@jurta.org> <87d4p2tuim.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1207611967 29864 80.91.229.12 (7 Apr 2008 23:46:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 23:46:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 08 01:46:39 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 1Jj12s-0004X2-OH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Apr 2008 01:46:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jj12F-0001dG-Hm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:45:59 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jj10k-0008Mo-2z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:44:26 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jj10i-0008Lu-Fy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:44:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jj10i-0008Lq-58 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:44:24 -0400 Original-Received: from relay02.kiev.sovam.com ([62.64.120.197]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jj10d-0001dd-HV; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:44:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [83.170.232.243] (helo=smtp.svitonline.com) by relay02.kiev.sovam.com with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1Jj10b-0000JI-4P; Tue, 08 Apr 2008 02:44:17 +0300 In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Mon, 07 Apr 2008 10:59:28 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-Scanner-Signature: 233cb89e4cdd9c68f6fe52a505261b56 X-DrWeb-checked: yes X-SpamTest-Envelope-From: juri@jurta.org X-SpamTest-Group-ID: 00000000 X-SpamTest-Header: Not Detected X-SpamTest-Info: Profiles 2574 [Apr 07 2008] X-SpamTest-Info: helo_type=3 X-SpamTest-Info: {HEADERS: header Content-Type found without required header Content-Transfer-Encoding} X-SpamTest-Method: none X-SpamTest-Rate: 10 X-SpamTest-Status: Not detected X-SpamTest-Status-Extended: not_detected X-SpamTest-Version: SMTP-Filter Version 3.0.0 [0278], KAS30/Release X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 6.x (1) 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:94647 Archived-At: > Meanwhile, if the tab bar normally shows the most recently used > buffers, MOST OF THE TIME the buffer you want will be visible there I think this is not the most useful order, and web browsers arrange tabs by the order of their creation (although they have an option to switch tabs by the order of recency, so in the tabbar where tabs are arranged by the order of creation, C-tab navigates to the last visited tab and so on, by the order of recency of their visiting time). > What Emacs still misses is a feature to group several frames, > window configurations, work areas, perspectives (these are > different names for almost the same thing) in the tab bar. > > It would be good to have a tab bar of perspectives, too. Yes, as Eclipse has both types of tab bars: a tab bar of perspectives equivalent to Emacs window configurations or Emacs frames, and a tab bar of parts equivalent to Emacs buffers. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/