Re: Tab bar

[Stefan Monnier]

>     I think a good implementation for a tabbar would be to use a whole
>     window (and buffer) for the tabbar (set mode-line-format to nil and
>     window-min-height to 1 or 2).  This would allow placing it anywhere in
>     the window tree, and hence all both "one per frame" and "one per
>     window".  Of course, to make it work well, we probably need some changes
>     at the C level in order to treat those windows specially,

> Once we make changes at the C level, there should be no need for the
> overhead of a separate window for the tabs.  It would be easiest and
> most convenient to generate the tabs directly from an alist.

> If each normal window has a tool bar, it would be a pain in the neck
> to have to make a second window (for the tool bar) for each normal window.

I want to be able to place a tabbar with each window and/or with
each frame.  Or really, anywhere along the window-tree.
I'm not wedded to the idea of having a separate window for each tabbar,
it's just an idea for how to create a more flexible tabbar entirely
in Elisp.  Once/if we implement this at the C level we may want
a completely different approach indeed.


        Stefan