Re: Emacs for Mac OS X - questions

[Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com>]

On Jul 2, 11:57 am, Marc Tfardy <b...@cyk.cyk> wrote:
> Xah Lee schrieb:
>
>  > The tabs in Aquamac Emacs is based on the tabbar.el module.
>  >
>  > tabs in emacs is quite different from tabs in firefox or any modern
>  > app's tabs.
>  >
>  > The bottom reason for this is that emacs doesn't do tabs, instead, it
>  > has buffers. You can have many windows (what emacs calls frames), and
>  > each window can access any buffer. However, tabs in modern apps does
>  > not work like that. In modern apps,
>
> Very thanks for teaching about tabs, windows-frame terms and what modern
> apps are but first, this was not topic and seconds I'm familiar with
> this things.
>
>  > in practice, this means when you use tabs in emacs, it's quite
>  > different. Tabs in emacs is merely just a prettified GUI for accessing
>  > buffers.
>  > See this page on emacswiki:
>  >http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TabBarMode
>  >
>  > [very long dissertation about tabs]
>
> Again - do you not think, that when one ask for possibility of switching
> off tabs, he is not interested how good tabs are in emacs, how different
> in comparison to other apps they are implemented and so on. I ask for
> switch off because I don't like tabs.
>
> regards
> Marc

Hi Marc,

Sorry i didn't notice originally you were asking to switch off tabs.

anyway, i'm a advocate for emacs modernization, and i think tabs is a
very important element because it provides visual clue on the hidden
buffers. I ranted on tabs because a lot emacs users got confused by
the different models, and for myself, i really tried to used tabs on
and off over 2 years and in the end got pissed because it just a hack
and can't really do the job. (it has major bugs that crasches emacs.
hard to find download location, etc. The one in aquamacs emacs is
highly modified from tabbar.el and i think it works only for
aquamacs.)

 Xah