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From: | Jan Djärv |
Subject: | Re: Gtk tabs in emacs, new branch |
Date: | Fri, 02 Apr 2010 09:25:21 +0200 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (X11/20100317) |
Uwe Siart skrev:
Angelo Graziosi <address@hidden> writes:Perhaps we need something like 'M-x tabs-mode' (by default possibly! :-))Please don't enable such stuff by default. The user should be able to decide by himself how many frames/windows/(tabs) he would like to open. Also IMO tabs are not that useful as many (windows) users think because there's only one tab visible at a time. Emacs' concept of frames and windows (and iswitchb-mode) is much better here.
It depends. Making many frames is no good if you don't have much screen space and want to view a large portion of your file. Many windows also reduces the amount of text you can view at once. Tabs have a role. Consider the use case of viewing 3 or 4 log files with very long lines at once. I currently do that by making Emacs fullscreen and switch buffers. Having tabs for this would be a small improvement, as the tabs give the file name and makes for faster switching. But I suspect long time Emacs users have developed habits that makes tabs less desirable.
An iswitcht-mode for tabs would probably be a good idea though. Jan D.
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