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: Gtk tabs in emacs, new branch Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 18:43:30 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87hbn4bz3l.fsf@mail.jurta.org> References: <4BB4CF6B.2000007@alice.it> <4BB59476.7010600@swipnet.se> <4BB5C01E.10701@alice.it> <4BB608EE.7080101@swipnet.se> <4BB9A469.6050608@alice.it> <4BC072C3.2080302@swipnet.se> <4BC0B692.2000702@alice.it> <4BC0BD6D.3060103@swipnet.se> <4BC0F715.2060605@alice.it> <45EB8DD4-B0F8-4FB3-941F-13FADA4DAD66@swipnet.se> <4BC1854B.2060409@alice.it> <4BC1A9D2.8050607@swipnet.se> <4BC206C0.2010202@alice.it> <87fx2pdvfq.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87y6gh87fg.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1271865560 32515 80.91.229.12 (21 Apr 2010 15:59:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 15:59:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 21 17:59:19 2010 connect(): No such file or directory 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O4cKb-0003nh-2s for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Apr 2010 17:59:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34467 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O4cKa-0001jW-Lp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Apr 2010 11:59:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1O4cGB-0004ky-N8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Apr 2010 11:54:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=57810 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O4cG8-0004hS-C1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Apr 2010 11:54:43 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O4cG7-0005kS-A2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Apr 2010 11:54:40 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp-out1.starman.ee ([85.253.0.3]:37531 helo=mx1.starman.ee) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O4cG1-0005hx-91; Wed, 21 Apr 2010 11:54:33 -0400 X-Virus-Scanned: by Amavisd-New at mx1.starman.ee Original-Received: from mail.starman.ee (82.131.28.200.cable.starman.ee [82.131.28.200]) by mx1.starman.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id 972B53F41C1; Wed, 21 Apr 2010 18:54:28 +0300 (EEST) In-Reply-To: <87y6gh87fg.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (David Kastrup's message of "Wed, 21 Apr 2010 11:46:11 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/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:123986 Archived-At: >> emacs --tabs file1 file2 file3 >> >> will open each file in a new tab. > > That should be the default in a tab-capable Emacs when more than one > file is specified. This seems better than splitting the window and displaying the buffer list, as it currently does. Tabs also have another advantage: the startup screen is displayed in a separate tab, so it does not interfere with editing input files. But what if some users might prefer the old behavior? Maybe to add a command line argument `--no-tabs'? >> emacsclient --create-tab >> >> creates a new tab on the current Emacs frame. > > Again, I don't see a necessity for a new option. If Emacs is configured > to open a new frame, all given files should appear in tabs of this > frame. If not, all given files should appear in tabs in the existing > selected frame, in front of existing tabs. Like Forefox having command line arguments `new-tab' and `new-window', I think Emacs should allow the user to choose whether to display the file in the selected window, a new frame or a new tab. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/