Re: Gtk tabs in emacs, new branch.

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 20:15:07 +0200
> From: Jan Djärv <address@hidden>
> CC: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden>, address@hidden, 
>  address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> >>  > A "window" in Emacs is the physical area of the screen in which a
> >>  > buffer is displayed.
> >>
> >> That's a restriction of Emacs, not of the concept of window, though.
> >> Emacs is effectively a tiling window manager (within each frame).
> > 
> > Actually, there is no such restriction.  For example, the tool bar, in
> > its Emacs implementation, is just a specialized window.
> 
> Not for the Gtk tool bar.

That doesn't matter.  My point is that a "window" in Emacs is not just
for displaying a buffer.  The fact that the Gtk build does not use
this feature does not diminish the feature in any way.