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Re: Tabbed buffers
From: |
Stephen J. Turnbull |
Subject: |
Re: Tabbed buffers |
Date: |
Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:31:11 +0900 |
Richard Stallman writes:
> All I was pointing out was that if we introduce frame-level
> tabs, then it might make sense to treat the current
> "multiple-frames on a single tty" as tabs rather than as
> frames.
>
> That seems like an unnecessary complication with no benefit.
The benefit is that the tabs provide a visual cue (which many users
will have experience with) of what alternatives are available via
`next-tab' or `pop-to-tab'.
I don't think it is a good idea to think of tabs per se as associated
with any given content class. They are a UI component, like any other
widget such as toolbar or radio button box (each of which is very
similar to a tab and could be used to simulate a tab control).
I think Alan's idea of a frameset (possibly implemented as Stefan
describes, but this area is conceptually hairy since a frame is the
biggest object Emacs deals with so tabs have to be *in* the frame,
while from the users' point of view it *acts like* multiple frames) is
probably the best default use of tabs. Users will understand it
immediately. Some will hate it for stealing precious screen real
estate, so there must be a way to turn it off. But users new to Emacs
or to multitty will find it a convenient way to learn about that
facility.
- Re: Tabbed buffers, (continued)
- Re: Tabbed buffers, Richard Stallman, 2008/01/26
- Re: Tabbed buffers, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/01/26
- Re: Tabbed buffers, T. V. Raman, 2008/01/27
- Re: Tabbed buffers, Stefan Monnier, 2008/01/27
- Re: Tabbed buffers, Stefan Monnier, 2008/01/27
- Re: Tabbed buffers, Robert J. Chassell, 2008/01/27
- Re: Tabbed buffers, Stefan Monnier, 2008/01/27
- Re: Tabbed buffers, Richard Stallman, 2008/01/28
- Re: Tabbed buffers,
Stephen J. Turnbull <=
- Re: Tabbed buffers, Stefan Monnier, 2008/01/28
- Re: Tabbed buffers, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/01/28
- Re: Tabbed buffers, Stefan Monnier, 2008/01/28
- Re: Tabbed buffers, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/01/28
- Re: Tabbed buffers, Nick Roberts, 2008/01/28
- Re: Tabbed buffers, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/01/29
- Re: Tabbed buffers, Nick Roberts, 2008/01/29
- Re: Tabbed buffers, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/01/29
- Re: Tabbed buffers, Richard Stallman, 2008/01/28
- Re: Tabbed buffers, Bastien Guerry, 2008/01/28