Re: Gtk tabs in emacs, new branch.

[Chong Yidong]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

> It's not just making them more general.  It's making them work in the
> "right/natural" way.  In Emacs this usually means among other things
> that clicks on it should generate Elisp events caught via a keymap and
> that the list of tabs should be specified by Elisp code.

If clicking on a tab is to act via keybindings, maybe the neatest way to
handle this is to allow keys to be bound to window configurations, with
the meaning of "impose this window configuration".  Then the Lisp side
of the tab feature would act by storing window configurations in a
keymap.