Re: Tab bar

[Richard Stallman]

    > If the tab bar by default provided one tab per buffer that would be
    > great for such users.

    It is not unusual to have tens or even hundreds buffers in Emacs.
    Can you imagine a tab bar with hundreds tabs?  It would occupy
    the whole screen.

Perhaps beginning users at that stage won't have so many buffers that
they can't all fit in the tab bar.  And by the time the user starts to
work with so many buffers, she will have learned about C-h b.

Meanwhile, if the tab bar normally shows the most recently used
buffers, MOST OF THE TIME the buffer you want will be visible there

    But really switching between buffers is not a problem, because Emacs
    already provides many different ways to do this: the top-level menu
    "Buffers", <C-mouse-1> pop-up menu, `C-x b' key, several packages like
    buff-menu.el, ebuff-menu.el, ibuffer.el, iswitchb.el, ido.el, etc.

Yes, but the tab bar is the most convenient and self-evident interface
for doing this, and many people are accustomed to it, so Emacs should
support it.

    What Emacs still misses is a feature to group several frames,
    window configurations, work areas, perspectives (these are
    different names for almost the same thing) in the tab bar.

It would be good to have a tab bar of perspectives, too.