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: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 03:17:07 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87vdc0dtc0.fsf@mail.jurta.org> References: <4BB49A8F.3000307@swipnet.se> <87bpe312n3.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <4BB4FE62.1010706@swipnet.se> <876340mcda.fsf@mail.jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1270860901 22872 80.91.229.12 (10 Apr 2010 00:55:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 00:55:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?'Jan_Dj=E4rv'?= , 'emacs-devel' To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 10 02:54:59 2010 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 1O0OyO-0003D3-KB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Apr 2010 02:54:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60302 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O0OyN-00084L-R7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Apr 2010 20:54:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1O0OyJ-000845-6C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Apr 2010 20:54:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=50428 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O0OyF-00081h-PL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Apr 2010 20:54:49 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O0OyE-0003mW-Hn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Apr 2010 20:54:47 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp-out2.starman.ee ([85.253.0.4]:34180 helo=mx2.starman.ee) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O0OyE-0003mJ-AH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Apr 2010 20:54:46 -0400 X-Virus-Scanned: by Amavisd-New at mx2.starman.ee Original-Received: from mail.starman.ee (82.131.31.90.cable.starman.ee [82.131.31.90]) by mx2.starman.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id B12233F40C5; Sat, 10 Apr 2010 03:54:41 +0300 (EEST) In-Reply-To: (Drew Adams's message of "Fri, 9 Apr 2010 16:54:18 -0700") 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:123407 Archived-At: > When describing such a feature, it would help to compare and contrast > it with tabbar.el, with which many people are familiar. Similarly, it > would help to compare it with tabs in other apps. I'm a big fan of the tabbed UI in different apps, mostly in web browsers since mid-1990s. This feature is a real efficiency booster that helps to organize the workspace. The most natural entity in Emacs to display in a tab would be a window configuration. Actually, something like this is already implemented in Konqueror where you can split the window vertically/horizontally in a tab. If you try it, you will understand how convenient it is. In the screenshot I sent, you can see Back/Forward buttons that expose in UI a useful feature existed for a long time in winner.el (currently winner.el is not used directly since it should be modified to support tabs). This will work like History Back/Forward buttons in web browsers. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/