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: Gtk tabs in emacs, new branch. Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 17:53:30 -0400 Message-ID: References: <4BB49A8F.3000307@swipnet.se> <87bpe3qa6q.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1270158950 23343 80.91.229.12 (1 Apr 2010 21:55:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 21:55:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Jan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dj=E4rv?= , emacs-devel To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 01 23:55:46 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NxSMb-00053y-6j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 23:55:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50642 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NxSMa-0003YG-N0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 17:55:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NxSKW-0002um-H2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 17:53:36 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=58717 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NxSKU-0002tl-Ow for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 17:53:35 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NxSKT-0003QI-Fj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 17:53:34 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.183]:57009 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NxSKT-0003Q9-Db for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 17:53:33 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvsEACyytEtFpZE8/2dsb2JhbACbSXK2UIUBBIsm X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.51,350,1267419600"; d="scan'208";a="60097571" Original-Received: from 69-165-145-60.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.165.145.60]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP; 01 Apr 2010 17:53:31 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 6B10B85F0; Thu, 1 Apr 2010 17:53:30 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87bpe3qa6q.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (Chong Yidong's message of "Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:50:21 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.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:123037 Archived-At: > I haven't had time to take a look at the implementation, but why do you > need to use window configurations? FWIW, I think the link between TABs and their "meaning" (i.e. the action to perform when one TAB is selected) should be in Elisp, and using window-configs seem like a very natural choice. Much more lightweight that frames. Stefan "who thinks there's a continuum between tabs-on-frames and tabs-on-window, by allowing tabs at any level of the window tree".