From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: C-x t N
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2021 18:22:31 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lf49j0ww.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83k0jurtj5.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 06 Sep 2021 11:35:10 +0300")
> NEWS says:
>
> *** 'C-x t N' creates a new tab at the specified absolute position.
> It also supports a negative argument.
>
> The doc string says:
>
> Add a new tab at the absolute position TO-INDEX.
> TO-INDEX counts from 1. If no TO-INDEX is specified, then add
> a new tab at the position specified by ‘tab-bar-new-tab-to’.
> Negative TO-INDEX counts tabs from the end of the tab bar.
>
> I think the interpretation of the negative values here is
> counter-intuitive, because using -1 will add a new tab to the right of
> the rightmost tab, and if that's what is meant by "from the end of the
> tab bar", then what exactly is "the end of the tab bar" needs to be
> explicitly documented.
I see you already fixed this by adding this text:
"and -1 means the new tab will become the last one"
I confirm this is correct.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-06 15:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-06 8:35 C-x t N Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-06 15:22 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2021-09-06 15:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-06 16:41 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-09-06 17:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-09 7:57 ` Juri Linkov
2021-09-09 11:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
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