From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Tabbed buffers Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 02:22:32 +0900 Message-ID: <87fxwh6f1j.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <18330.23354.579245.68671@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <87ejc5sf4l.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <18330.29609.396872.678539@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <87wspxqwjv.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87myqq5p2o.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1201540625 16293 80.91.229.12 (28 Jan 2008 17:17:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:17:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: nickrob@snap.net.nz, miles@gnu.org, eliz@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 28 18:17:25 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 1JJXbl-0006I7-2E for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:17:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JJXbK-0003ZI-7M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:16:54 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JJXbG-0003Yu-Hx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:16:50 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JJXbF-0003Yi-Q1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:16:50 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JJXbF-0003Yf-Kc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:16:49 -0500 Original-Received: from mtps01.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.223]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JJXb5-00024j-Eo; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:16:39 -0500 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mtps01.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id B542C1535BA; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 02:16:36 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B4B601A29E5; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 02:22:32 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.5 (beta28) "fuki" (+CVS-20071205) XEmacs Lucid X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:87718 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: > Actually, I was not even thinking of adding a "tabs line" to the > tty display. I was talking about the elisp-level. That doesn't make any sense to me. What you're talking about then is a (Emacs) window configuration. Tabs are a UI component. It would make sense to have tabs available as a UI to switch window configurations in a frame, but tabs could also be used to switch buffers in a window, to page through a long list (as with library catalog cards if you're old enough to remember them), etc. All of these could be implemented as a separate display container structure (presumably frame > tab > window > buffer), but I really don't think the extra complexity would buy you anything more than the current frame > window > buffer scheme. And (possibly) it would be more restrictive than a tabs as UI scheme, where the tabs could be attached to various display container widgets (although I suppose Emacs, like XEmacs, doesn't really take advantage of widgets very much).