Re: desktop-read usage and syntax ::error, strange character

[ken <gebser@mousecar.com>]

On 07/19/2017 07:11 AM, Sharon Kimble wrote:
>> Sharon, thanks for your reply. There's a lot there though which I'm not understanding.  For
>> instance, what do you meanfur that you 'restore them from memory'?  And what is tabbar...? and what
>> are tabs?
> I remember what files I had open before the 'emacs.desktop' corruption
> and I then use that memory to help me load them back into emacs. It just
> uses brain power and brain memory to tell me what buffers I had open,
> and which I therefore need to reload.

:-D  That was my second choice for interpretations.  The first was that 
you had an app to search through RAM.  Back in the DOS days there was 
such a thing.  Haven't heard of such a creature for Linux (though it 
wouldn't be a huge job to code it).

> Tabbar and tabbar-ruler [fn:1] help you by having each buffers title
> shown in tabs at the top of the emacs buffer. These tabs are similar to
> the tabs you can find in most internet browsers, think firefox,
> chromium, Vivaldi, etc. You can move very easily between them by using
> your mouse, or perhaps keyboard but I'm not sure of that. Anyway, every
> buffer is a tab, and tabs are grouped together dependant on their major
> mode. So all elisp buffers are grouped together, and ditto with
> org-mode, etc. Both programs are available from ELPA, and if you're
> still using your mouse then they're very worthwhile.

Okay, thanks.  That sounds cool.  Yeah, I'm well aware of tabs in 
general, but had never seen or heard of them for emacs.  Sounds like 
that would be handy in situations... though many times I need to have 
two buffers visible at the same time, or also one and the same buffer 
open in two different frames, both visible at the same time. So do 
tabbar/tabbar-ruler allow that as well, say, by doing "C-x 5 b 
chosen-buf"...? or is it mandated that henceforth all buffers will be 
tabbed and only so (so long as tabbar/tabbar-ruler is invoked)?