From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dmitry Gutov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Tabs Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2019 14:16:16 +0300 Message-ID: References: <87a7bpysm8.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <87o903dc2j.fsf@mail.linkov.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="120701"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.8.0 Cc: martin rudalics , Juri Linkov , emacs-devel To: =?UTF-8?Q?Elias_M=c3=a5rtenson?= , Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 02 13:16:39 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1i4kK5-000VHM-Du for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Sep 2019 13:16:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35258 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1i4kK4-0002XE-3l for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Sep 2019 07:16:36 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:33897) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1i4kJp-0002X2-9a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Sep 2019 07:16:25 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1i4kJo-0004qT-Eg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Sep 2019 07:16:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-lj1-x236.google.com ([2a00:1450:4864:20::236]:36013) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1i4kJo-0004om-7u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Sep 2019 07:16:20 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-lj1-x236.google.com with SMTP id u15so12513815ljl.3 for ; Mon, 02 Sep 2019 04:16:19 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=sender:subject:to:cc:references:from:message-id:date:user-agent :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-language:content-transfer-encoding; bh=V4TJBRlYJaKZtEIaCTN2gzq4LI2bSJoghg/1SWiNsf8=; b=qfEMP8sitSQe6YfjDalZvcoduUhP4sRuR87+VWpgQD60MW6Vntv3k8sct5/PLw9p0f o9QjBwcX5uMU1P+8VdvAJ0fEAAAShiQAy4oapisr5yZ9bvUJ3aug+VLcwGa2gDd/3YLr s8rmU588547jOXBKdppro/f9yR+5mmLdG6JciYSyn/IfCLEq7HIL5YvcfIix+P7G7atd b+zklHO7WzHnRCPNV+ljB578oLX2VXmGnXGg5AEVXsofnj/ZcW369+4WCKv2CGkbDh4n 9YSxoEEVFqxF/pbPwH2J353Hrau8akw5iWLSMg7uhygFoO9tvYADeTBoaBjt5jLIv1iG kFGg== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:sender:subject:to:cc:references:from:message-id :date:user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-language :content-transfer-encoding; bh=V4TJBRlYJaKZtEIaCTN2gzq4LI2bSJoghg/1SWiNsf8=; b=Rck+THMPsz+h5Sv9xJ5QvdM7y2yIFbTfxhrYEwD1aHfKPG2kl6AIU1BFOrCxN3fyKE iQeqT6pNsvSlGEhpJKskRXL39LEeaCW8syEtBUCh4AJBYREM0yW3D2xgQas0FdDEHgYA 5JniqD0y40Wwa2/QcXWSDfM5GvGzvpTbMze7jdZeCrhlmlkRUgdhvLydAi0gPrQTW8bk +zXjbj0qZKke9swloIrW7vlcY/z/gVsuTMMtK4LbvzH4vUgA91gNCdXhb2hMTb5jQL8I rcrAUy4VP/YO0qxPkWqfCrzlgQrh1+CROiPTk9WTxIT1OOEvqnnvMyoqfskicIvH9bM6 N+Fw== X-Gm-Message-State: APjAAAXok4UuSACzuCs+KrlSkma7JyicZ/jCeJTpOUl5CSczPY+hNIfr RoxDvEwievh2lgWtMZYYdUs= X-Google-Smtp-Source: APXvYqzfle3tDOgCoMb2XtL0wOSigYCUlD7JxF6rvTPacfJmGjFWOREb+0hxf+YbVbZNH2x41utTAQ== X-Received: by 2002:a2e:87c4:: with SMTP id v4mr3523586ljj.234.1567422978002; Mon, 02 Sep 2019 04:16:18 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.142] ([178.252.127.239]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id y26sm1823947ljd.48.2019.09.02.04.16.16 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 02 Sep 2019 04:16:17 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:4864:20::236 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:239773 Archived-At: On 02.09.2019 13:11, Elias Mårtenson wrote: > Is it truly wise to have the word “tab” as part of the name of this > feature? The word “tab” (when not referring to codepoint U+0009 > CHARACTER TABULATION) usually refers to the specific visual indication > that resembles a row of tabs in old filing cabinets. The feature itself > doesn't really have that much to do with tabs of either kind. If you look at common software outside of Emacs, "tab" is very often used for this kind of feature. E.g. browser tabs. Or similar tabs in other text editors.