Re: Neat features in Eclipse editor

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Richard Stallman wrote:
> Do you have any other generalization to suggest?

Yes, I was thinking more of the graphical (or maybe hierarchical) 
aspect. To me tabs are something that can be placed just under frames or 
subframes.

>     Another note about tabs: When considering such features is not that also 
>     a good time to consider something like wxwidgets?
>
> Maybe yes.  The screens of today's computers are much bigger, so space
> for the text is no longer at a great premium.  So there is no pressing
> reason not to use toolkit widgets around each window to make it look
> nicer.  We definitely want to get away from the current limit that window
> sizes must be multiples of a "line height".
>
> Whether wxwindows is the right way to do this, I have no opinion, since
> I don't know much about it.  Can wxwindows work with Gtk?

See Stephen's reply here:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-01/msg01170.html