From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: AW: AW: Tabs in Emacs? Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:56:23 -0500 Message-ID: References: <4B029686.8080705@alice.it> <7b501d5c0911170532i5620ce86w57507fa95eecb1dc@mail.gmail.com> <7697A57B1AD9104F993CDF6A5B69430C08D5B6356B@CORPMAIL08.corp.capgemini.com> <87aayli4xv.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <7697A57B1AD9104F993CDF6A5B69430C08D5A97269@CORPMAIL08.corp.capgemini.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1258556660 11375 80.91.229.12 (18 Nov 2009 15:04:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:04:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Berndl, Klaus" , Emacs , Angelo Graziosi , Deniz Dogan To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 18 16:04:12 2009 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 1NAm4b-0001dT-It for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:03:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57896 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NAm4b-0006sn-5g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:03:57 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NAlxQ-0001iC-J5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:56:32 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NAlxL-0001ez-Q5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:56:31 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=45515 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NAlxL-0001ev-H7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:56:27 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.183]:61431 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NAlxJ-0006Gt-HR; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:56:25 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: As4EAEiaA0vO+II8/2dsb2JhbACBTdRrhDsEiVc X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.44,765,1249272000"; d="scan'208";a="49594542" Original-Received: from 206-248-130-60.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([206.248.130.60]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP; 18 Nov 2009 09:56:24 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 5F52E859F; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:56:23 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Miles Bader's message of "Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:52:47 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:117178 Archived-At: > While a window-configuration switching implementation is useful in some > cases (e.g. eclipses uses a sort of similar system for switching between [...] > I think many users might just want to switch between buffers, and have > tabs automatically added for each buffer (perhaps limiting the number > displayed in a MRU fashion, e.g., how eclipse handles source file tabs). To me it's clear that the C part of the code should offer a "tabs" widget which the Elisp code can then place anywhere in the window tree. So you can have it at the root (tabs-fer-frame), or at the leaf (tabs-per-window), or in-between (for things like ECB maybe). Stefan