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Re: AW: Tabs in Emacs?


From: David Reitter
Subject: Re: AW: Tabs in Emacs?
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:54:17 -0500

On Nov 17, 2009, at 8:59 AM, Berndl, Klaus wrote:

> IMHO this tabbar-mode has nothing to do with "real" tabs (as e.g. in Firefox) 
> because the header-line is (mis-)used as tab-title/handle, so when using this 
> mechanism to *simulate* tabs i have no headerline within the tabs... IMHO 
> nothing what i would call "Tabs"...

These are two problems - one conceptual, but the other one an easily solvable 
technical one.

It wouldn't be tricky to add a second header line (displayed just above the 
header line) for the purposes of tabbar?
This assumes that tabbar-mode wants to operate on the window level (rather than 
per-frame), to display a subset of the available buffers for people to switch 
to in that window.  Native widgets for tabs would be the next logical step, but 
that would require a lot of implementation work for the different toolkits.

The per-frame implementation is very interesting, too, because it would store 
window configurations.  But that's far away from the current tabbar 
implementation.










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