Re: Gtk tabs in emacs, new branch

[Jan Djärv]

Uwe Siart skrev:
> Angelo Graziosi <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Perhaps we need something like 'M-x tabs-mode' (by default possibly!
> > :-))
>
> Please don't enable such stuff by default. The user should be able to
> decide by himself how many frames/windows/(tabs) he would like to open.
>
> Also IMO tabs are not that useful as many (windows) users think because
> there's only one tab visible at a time. Emacs' concept of frames and
> windows (and iswitchb-mode) is much better here.

It depends.  Making many frames is no good if you don't have much screen space 
and want to view a large portion of your file.  Many windows also reduces the 
amount of text you can view at once.  Tabs have a role.  Consider the use case 
of viewing 3 or 4 log files with very long lines at once.  I currently do that 
by making Emacs fullscreen and switch buffers.  Having tabs for this would be 
a small improvement, as the tabs give the file name and makes for faster 
switching.  But I suspect long time Emacs users have developed habits that 
makes tabs less desirable.

An iswitcht-mode for tabs would probably be a good idea though.

        Jan D.