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Re: Tabs are ready? -> Let us give a definition of tabs.
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martin rudalics |
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Re: Tabs are ready? -> Let us give a definition of tabs. |
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Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:05:09 +0100 |
>> How do you communicate to the tab what the "something" is?
>
>
>
> execute 'grep -i foo *' in background , example
I didn't ask "what" the something is. I asked "how" you want to
communicate that something to the tab.
>>> 2. The 'show event should commute to the buffer *grep*
>> This is the standard buffer switching functionality.
>>
>>
> I know how to commute a buffer. In this case of tab, I want the show event
> to commute to a given buffer.
I meant that this is the standard behavior associated with tabs: Display
something like a file or a webpage in the display area associated with
the tab.
>>> 3. when grep finds something, and the tab is hidden , the tab widget to
>>> change the color
>> What sense does it make to have a hidden tab change color? And what
>> kind of event is this in your nomenclature?
>>
>>
> Tabs should register a callback for an event , for example, when i/o
> arrives in the given process...
But what do you want to do? I suppose you want to show the tab that was
hidden before. OTOH "show" in your nomenclature meant something
different so far: Do some standard action associated with the tab like
switching buffers or restoring a window configuration.
>>> 4. The 'close event should kill the *grep* buffer, and the process , if
>> it
>>> had not finished yet
>>> Could you do this using buttons in toolbar or menubar, as you insist ?
>> So far I'd only insist that saving and restoring window configurations
>> should be done with the menubar rather than with a tab. I never ever
>> use toolbars but I think that mail handling routines using the toolbar
>> (could) do such things routinely (inform of new mail, kill a buffer and
>> remove the associated button when mail has been sent , ...).
>>
>>
> Why do you change the subject of discussion ? saving and restoring window
> configurations concerns other type of tab, not this one I am talking here.
I referred to the window configuration example because so far that was
the only one where I "insisted" on providing a menubar entry rather than
a tab. You can't accuse me of insistence with an example you didn't
provide before. My argument was that the "'close event" for the *grep*
buffer is rather similar to a toolbar button provided by an email
problem which, when hit, causes the currently written mail to get sent
and the associated display area where that mail was shown removed. I
don't know of any MUA that uses tabs for such a purpose but I don't want
to exclude it.
I also agree that the hourglass functionality of a tab you cited earlier
(that is changing the color of a tab while work like grep searching is
in progress) can be useful, for example, when performing a couple of
grep searches or compilations simultaneously.
martin
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