Re: Steve Yegge on tabbed UI, 2008

[Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>]

>>>>> On Sun, 13 Mar 2022 12:07:21 +0000, Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> said:

    Eric> On Saturday, 12 Mar 2022 at 16:26, Drew Adams wrote:
    >> (But yeah, it doesn't _hurt_ that Emacs can _also_ use tabs.)

    Eric> Indeed and, for me, where Emacs is full screen on a large wide monitor,
    Eric> tabs simply provide the equivalent of workspaces in (other) desktop
    Eric> managers.  I seldom do anything outside Emacs but having a small number
    Eric> (handful at most) of alternative views is useful.

I donʼt use tabs with Emacs, because I find it much more convenient to
have multiple fullscreen frames overlaying each other. Itʼs a habit
derived from when my Emacs usage was purely in a terminal [1], and I find
it very effective when working on multiple unrelated projects.

Robert

Footnotes:
[1]  I *think* there were graphical terminals available at the time,
     but I certainly wasnʼt allowed to use one :-)

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