From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Tab bar Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 10:59:31 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87wsnaso3h.fsf@jurta.org> <87d4p2tuim.fsf@jurta.org> <87prt2qzbd.fsf@jurta.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1207580475 6064 80.91.229.12 (7 Apr 2008 15:01:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 15:01:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: koppel@ece.lsu.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 07 17:01:47 2008 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 4.50) id 1Jisqo-0000nf-5F for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:01:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JisqB-0008R6-2j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 11:00:59 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jison-0006iK-QD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 10:59:33 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jisom-0006gv-Nc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 10:59:32 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jisom-0006gS-CK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 10:59:32 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jisom-0003m4-3O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 10:59:32 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1Jisol-0005kx-LP; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 10:59:31 -0400 In-reply-to: <87prt2qzbd.fsf@jurta.org> (message from Juri Linkov on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 03:32:54 +0300) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: 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:94569 Archived-At: Just as web browsers provide an option to choose between opening pages in a new tab or in the same tab, and similarly to the Emacs option `pop-up-frames', we could create a new user option `pop-up-tabs' whose non-nil value will always display a new buffer in a new tab, and we could even set it to non-nil by default for the convenience of new users. This idea makes no sense to me. If the default usage of the tab bar is to switch buffers in the selected window, then every new buffer will inevitably get a "new tab" regardless of how it is displayed. So what question are you talking about?