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Re: basic question: going back to dired
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Xah |
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Re: basic question: going back to dired |
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Fri, 1 Aug 2008 04:15:02 -0700 (PDT) |
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On Aug 1, 1:05 am, Nikolaj Schumacher <n_schumac...@web.de> wrote:
> Michael Ekstrand <mich...@elehack.net> wrote:
> > It is not a tab. If you have "tabs" going in Emacs (which XEmacs seems
> > to support in some fashion), or are in some other editor with tabs, they
> > are equivalent Emacs' "windows", not buffers. You could view the same
> > buffer in multiple tabs. What then?
>
> I don't think you're right here. Looking at Firefox, for instance, tabs
> there don't correspond to Emacs windows at all. Each Firefox window has
> a tab-bar that switch between several tabs, just as each Emacs window
> can switch between several buffers.
>
> If each tab-bar has the same set of tabs there would be no problem in
> viewing the same tab (= buffer) in multiple windows.
>
> Of course, Emacs doesn't have tab-bars. So I agree, buffers aren't tabs.
Emacs has tabs. See
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/TabBarMode
i think it should be bundled with emacs and on by default on. But what
do i know?
Xah
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