Re: Tab bar

[David Koppelman]

For new users a tab bar with one tab per buffer (and perhaps showing the
n most recent) would be a great help, they can get to work without
immediately having to learn how to switch buffers or for that matter
learning what a buffer is.

I'd suggest taking such users into account when designing the tab bar
though without compromising the features for organization that
experienced users might want.

Juri Linkov <address@hidden> writes:

>> I frequently work with new users of Emacs and perhaps their biggest
>> frustration is switching between buffers (or even just knowing that's
>> what they need to do).
>>
>> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.