From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: basic question: going back to dired Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 04:15:02 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <66d0c5e3-95d3-4c9b-a602-273375d6cf1f@j22g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> <9bc17528-8ea9-49f7-8e9d-07f5ede91415@p31g2000prf.googlegroups.com> <87bq0e1bmu.fsf@jehiel.elehack.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1217590888 21177 80.91.229.12 (1 Aug 2008 11:41:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 11:41:28 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 01 13:42:18 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KOt1Q-0002u9-TF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:42:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42373 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KOt0U-0000Uw-RT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Aug 2008 07:41:14 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!a3g2000prm.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 28 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.6.97.120 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1217589302 25686 127.0.0.1 (1 Aug 2008 11:15:02 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 11:15:02 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: a3g2000prm.googlegroups.com; posting-host=24.6.97.120; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10_4_11; en) AppleWebKit/525.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.2 Safari/525.22, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:160771 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:56119 Archived-At: On Aug 1, 1:05 am, Nikolaj Schumacher wrote: > Michael Ekstrand 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, the= y > > 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 (=3D 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 =E2=88=91 http://xahlee.org/ =E2=98=84