From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: nickrob@snap.net.nz, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Tabbed buffers
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 11:14:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <u4pd1lzii.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ejc5sf4l.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (message from Miles Bader on Sat, 26 Jan 2008 07:40:42 +0900)
> From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
> Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 07:40:42 +0900
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz> writes:
> > Eclipse gets round this problem by displaying tabbed panes. I know
> > that you can do something like this in Emacs using tabbar.el.
> > Nowadays though, many applications, e.g., Firefox, use the underlying
> > toolkit for this. I wonder if we should add such a feature to Emacs
> > at the C level, at least for GTK.
>
> It seems like it would need some thought to work well in Emacs, as
> tabbed user interfaces quickly become unusable if there lots of tabs,
> and Emacs buffer counts are quite often _way_ over that threshold.
How about using the tool-bar infrastructure for that? We could have a
second tool-bar line, below the usual one, with buttons for buffers.
When buttons are too many to display in a single line, we could add
another line, etc. Alternatively, when there are too many buttons to
fit on a single line, we display a "More..." button that would pop up
a menu of the rest; those that get their own buttons would then be
maintained on some kind of LRU basis.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-26 9:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-25 21:57 Tabbed buffers Nick Roberts
2008-01-25 22:40 ` Miles Bader
2008-01-25 23:41 ` Nick Roberts
2008-01-26 0:07 ` Miles Bader
2008-01-26 2:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-26 5:03 ` Miles Bader
2008-01-26 7:24 ` Thomas Lord
2008-01-26 19:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-26 14:38 ` Chong Yidong
2008-01-27 0:44 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-27 1:21 ` Miles Bader
2008-01-27 1:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-27 16:04 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-27 1:50 ` Nick Roberts
2008-01-27 1:58 ` Miles Bader
2008-01-27 2:10 ` Nick Roberts
2008-01-27 0:45 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-27 4:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-27 16:13 ` T. V. Raman
2008-01-27 20:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-27 20:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-27 23:31 ` Robert J. Chassell
2008-01-28 2:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-28 7:17 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-28 8:31 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-01-28 15:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-28 17:22 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-01-28 18:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-28 19:18 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-01-28 21:30 ` Nick Roberts
2008-01-29 6:53 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-01-29 7:19 ` Nick Roberts
2008-01-29 8:08 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-01-28 21:32 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-28 23:05 ` Bastien Guerry
2008-01-30 6:16 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-30 7:53 ` Bastien Guerry
2008-01-28 21:32 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-29 7:10 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-01-30 6:16 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-01 3:50 ` T. V. Raman
2008-02-01 18:26 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-03 2:06 ` T. V. Raman
2008-02-03 16:18 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-27 19:55 ` Using several frames on TTYs, switching them, terminology: [Is also: Tabbed buffers] Alan Mackenzie
2008-01-27 20:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-27 21:33 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-01-28 4:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-02-01 3:32 ` T. V. Raman
2008-01-27 21:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-27 21:50 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-01-28 2:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-28 7:17 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-28 15:42 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-01-28 21:32 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-26 9:14 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2008-01-26 11:36 ` Tabbed buffers Robert J. Chassell
2008-01-26 9:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-27 0:12 ` Nick Roberts
2008-01-27 4:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-27 4:48 ` Nick Roberts
2008-01-27 8:05 ` Is there any document about Emacs implementation (C source code)? brianjiang
2008-01-27 9:40 ` dhruva
2008-01-27 20:32 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-01-27 20:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-27 17:18 ` Tabbed buffers Eli Zaretskii
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