From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nix Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Tabs are ready? -> Let us give a definition of tabs. Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:45:06 +0000 Message-ID: <87aa4vhhkt.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix> References: <4F2E5D33.6020406@gmx.at> <4F2E8185.4080706@gmx.at> <4F2EC73A.8020905@gmx.at> <4F2FACF8.2040304@gmx.at> <4F3007E8.6090209@gmx.at> <87liofhir9.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix> <4F302D4D.3040307@gmx.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1328557528 11943 80.91.229.3 (6 Feb 2012 19:45:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 19:45:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juri Linkov , Juanma Barranquero , Alin Soare , Emacs Dev To: martin rudalics Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 06 20:45:25 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 1RuUV8-0004Ty-TL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:45:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57766 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RuUV8-0001TD-DF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:45:22 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:51114) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RuUV2-0001T7-10 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:45:20 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RuUUx-0006Bp-HA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:45:15 -0500 Original-Received: from icebox.esperi.org.uk ([81.187.191.129]:35429 helo=mail.esperi.org.uk) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RuUUx-0006Bj-6I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:45:11 -0500 Original-Received: from esperi.org.uk (nix@spindle.srvr.nix [192.168.14.15]) by mail.esperi.org.uk (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q16Jj6Kj023670; Mon, 6 Feb 2012 19:45:06 GMT Original-Received: (from nix@localhost) by esperi.org.uk (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) id q16Jj6GQ016629; Mon, 6 Feb 2012 19:45:06 GMT Emacs: the Swiss Army of Editors. In-Reply-To: <4F302D4D.3040307@gmx.at> (martin rudalics's message of "Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:43:09 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.93 (gnu/linux) X-DCC-wuwien-Metrics: spindle 1290; Body=5 Fuz1=5 Fuz2=5 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 81.187.191.129 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:148281 Archived-At: On 6 Feb 2012, martin rudalics said: >> I don't know. I'd actually very much like a set of per-window tabs which >> recorded not a single buffer per tab but an entire window-configuration >> per tab. > > OK. But these should be per-frame tabs since a window configuration is > defined for frames. Er, um, yes, of course. Never talk Emacs while hacking Qt, one's terminology gets confused. :) >> It would make a nice user interface for things like winring.el. > > We'd probably have to do the following things: > > (1) When switching to another configuration make it easy to switch back to > the last configuration. Yep. (A key to toggle tabs, basically, like C-a a in screen.) > (2) Provide a naming scheme suitable for tabs. > > (3) Handle tab switching via the keyboard in an appropriate way. For > example, we could use a virtual, highlighted tab representing the > current window configuration such that switching to the next or > previous tab could be done with the necessary feedback. winring.el already does much of this (though I don't think it is exactly ideal in all respects). -- NULL && (void)