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Charles Muller <acmuller@gol.com> writes:

> I recently got the "recent files" function (recentf.el) working
> without any problems by copying recentf.el to my Emacs list directory
> and adding the following to my .emacs:
>
> (require 'recentf)
> (recentf-mode 1)
>
> But when I try the same thing with "tabs.el" I get a "file not found"
> error. It is definitely there, though. I also tried
>
> (load "tabs")

Hmm, the tabs.el I looked at on google has no `provide' statement.  Try
adding the following line at the bottom of tabs.el

(provide 'tabs)

And then do 

(require 'tabs)
(tabs-mode 1)

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Booting... /vmemacs.el