Re: basic question: going back to dired

[Xah <xahlee@gmail.com>]

On Aug 1, 1:05 am, Nikolaj Schumacher <n_schumac...@web.de> wrote:
> Michael Ekstrand <mich...@elehack.net> wrote:
> > It is not a tab.  If you have "tabs" going in Emacs (which XEmacs seems
> > to support in some fashion), or are in some other editor with tabs, they
> > are equivalent Emacs' "windows", not buffers.  You could view the same
> > buffer in multiple tabs.  What then?
>
> I don't think you're right here.  Looking at Firefox, for instance, tabs
> there don't correspond to Emacs windows at all.  Each Firefox window has
> a tab-bar that switch between several tabs, just as each Emacs window
> can switch between several buffers.
>
> If each tab-bar has the same set of tabs there would be no problem in
> viewing the same tab (= buffer) in multiple windows.
>
> Of course, Emacs doesn't have tab-bars.  So I agree, buffers aren't tabs.

Emacs has tabs. See
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/TabBarMode

i think it should be bundled with emacs and on by default on. But what
do i know?

  Xah
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