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Re: Tab bar
From: |
Juri Linkov |
Subject: |
Re: Tab bar |
Date: |
Tue, 08 Apr 2008 02:27:33 +0300 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) |
> Just as web browsers provide an option to choose between opening pages
> in a new tab or in the same tab, and similarly to the Emacs option
> `pop-up-frames', we could create a new user option `pop-up-tabs' whose
> non-nil value will always display a new buffer in a new tab, and we
> could even set it to non-nil by default for the convenience of new users.
>
> This idea makes no sense to me.
Is this because you don't use web browsers? In most modern web browsers
a tab displays a web page, but the same tab can switch between different
web pages (so web pages are equivalent to Emacs buffers). When the user
wants to visit a new page, then depending on such option, the browser
can either open it in the same tab or create a new tab. Often this
preference can't be defined in advance, so there are special keys
to choose between these options, e.g. simply clicking <mouse-1> on
a link opens a web page in the same tab, but <C-mouse-1> opens it
in a new tab.
> If the default usage of the tab bar is to switch buffers in the
> selected window, then every new buffer will inevitably get a "new tab"
> regardless of how it is displayed. So what question are you
> talking about?
Of course, selecting a tab to switch buffers should not create a new tab
(internally this can be implemented using functions like `switch-to-buffer'
that don't create a new window or a new tab), but if the user invokes
a command that calls `display-buffer' then a new option `pop-up-tabs'
makes sense to allow displaying it in a new tab just as `pop-up-frames'
allows displaying it in a new frame.
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
- Tab bar (was: Neat features in Eclipse editor), Juri Linkov, 2008/04/06
- Re: Tab bar, David Koppelman, 2008/04/06
- Re: Tab bar, Juri Linkov, 2008/04/06
- Re: Tab bar, David Koppelman, 2008/04/06
- Re: Tab bar, Juri Linkov, 2008/04/06
- Re: Tab bar, Richard Stallman, 2008/04/07
- Re: Tab bar,
Juri Linkov <=
- Re: Tab bar, Richard Stallman, 2008/04/08
- Re: Tab bar, Jason Rumney, 2008/04/08
- RE: Tab bar, Drew Adams, 2008/04/08
- Re: Tab bar, Richard Stallman, 2008/04/09
- Re: Tab bar, Juri Linkov, 2008/04/09
- Re: Tab bar, Richard Stallman, 2008/04/07
- Re: Tab bar, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/04/07
- Re: Tab bar, Juri Linkov, 2008/04/07
- RE: Tab bar, Drew Adams, 2008/04/07
- Re: Tab bar, Stefan Monnier, 2008/04/07