Re: [Nano-devel] File tabs

[Benno Schulenberg]

Op 28-11-17 om 08:30 schreef address@hidden:
> I found tabs, like in internet and filesystem browsers and IDEs, to make the 
> title bar more useful and helpful when navigating between more than a couple
> of buffers in nano. Basically, instead of drawing the title bar the way we do
> now, we would display the list of open file filenames. Here's an example:
>
> hello.c  hello.h [main.c] Makefile*  TODO.txt  READM...

Interesting...  Thanks for the patch.

> I most often use nano in fullscreen mode to work in local directory with 
> relatively shortly-named files, so in that kind of scenario I have always had
>  enough space to display all the filenames, because it can display more than
> 10 at a time.

When I edit multiple files, I normally do something like 'nano src/*.c',
which means that a third of the title bar gets filled with src/ src/ src/.
So at the very least, the patch should display only the basename of the
given files, not their full paths.

> I'm not sure what should nano do when the current buffer could not be
> displayed.

I think it should "scroll" the entire title bar to the left so that the
name of the current buffer can be fully displayed at the right.

Instead of the brackets, I would prefer a color highlight.  This should
probably be configurable: if a "tabcolor" is set, use that color, if not,
use brackets.

(Note: my comments do not mean that I consider the patch for inclusion.
But the above fixes are the bare minimum to even start considering the
possibility.)

[Please answer only to the list, not to me.]

Benno