On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 12:01 AM, chad wrote: > > On 05 Jan 2014, at 14:25, Lennart Borgman > wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 11:13 PM, chad wrote: > >> >> Windows as tabs by default would almost certainly improve familiarity by >> default. >> The keybindings are confusing to many people. People who accidentally >> split-window are very confused. >> >> Tabs is a very good feature, but it can't replace "split windows". The > latter must be taught to beginners. > > > As stated, I disagree (and this is coming from a person who lived inside > emacs-as-window-system for most of a year). It might come from seeing > dozens (maybe hundreds) of smart people decide that “Quit Emacs” was the > best way to accomplish what I would do with "C-x 1”, and that was before > tabs. > > I think that *help* and *completions* can teach beginners about split > windows just fine, and from there they can learn about > split-window-{below,right}, winner/windmove, pop-up-windows, frames, and > tabs as fits their preferences. > > All that’s IMHO, of course. > Eh, I do not think we disagree. ;-) I just misread you. I thought you said split windows should be replaced by tabs. Sorry. I think your suggestion is fine.