Re: Gtk tabs in emacs, new branch

[Angelo Graziosi]

Il 10/04/2010 14.44, Jan Djärv ha scritto:
> Angelo Graziosi skrev:
> > Still some observation...
> >
> > Suppose one starts Emacs, a single frame with 38 lines
> > (Emacs.geometry: 80x40-0+0 in .Xdefaults, for example). Now suppose
> > one creates some tabs: M-x tab-new. The lines now are 37 because one
> > line is that of tabs and the frame has the same size (height). If,
> > now, one deletes the tabs, the lines remain at 37 but the frame has
> > the height shorter by one line. Repeating this procedure the lines
> > become 36, 35,... and the frame shorter, shorter...
> >
> > Is this to be the right thing? My opinion is that the frame should
> > have always the same height and the line should be 38 (N) or 37 (N-1)
> > if the tabs are visible.
>
> Emacs tries to keep the frame size so an integral number of lines just
> fits. But tabs aren't (in general) exactly one or two lines high, so
> some resize will occur. I made some fix.
>
> I also made tab-mode a minor mode so it can be turned off by customize.

Good to hear! but I can't yet test it because bootstrapping rev. 99648 
(gtk-tabs branch) fails as follows:

[...]
make[3]: Entering directory `/tmp/emacs-gtk-tabs/build/lisp'
Compiling /tmp/emacs/src/../lisp/term/w32-win.el
Compiling /tmp/emacs/src/../lisp/emacs-lisp/easymenu.el
Wrote /tmp/emacs/lisp/term/w32-win.elc
Wrote /tmp/emacs/lisp/emacs-lisp/easymenu.elc
make[3]: Leaving directory `/tmp/emacs-gtk-tabs/build/lisp'
make[3]: Leaving directory `/tmp/emacs-gtk-tabs/build/lisp'
rm -f ../etc/DOC
../lib-src/make-docfile -d /tmp/emacs/src dosfns.o msdos.o xterm.o 
xfns.o[...]
/lisp/jka-cmpr-hook.elc ../lisp/ediff-hook.elc ../lisp/epa-hook.elc 
../lisp/widget.elc ../lisp/window.elc ../lisp/version.el
LC_ALL=C `/bin/pwd`/temacs -batch -l loadup dump
Loading loadup.el (source)...
Using load-path (/tmp/emacs/lisp)
Loading emacs-lisp/byte-run...
Loading emacs-lisp/backquote...
Loading subr...
Loading version.el (source)...
[...]
Loading tool-bar...
Loading font-setting...
Loading native-tabs.el (source)...
Attempt to autoload define-minor-mode while preparing to dump
make[2]: *** [emacs.exe] Error 255
make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/emacs-gtk-tabs/build/src'
make[1]: *** [src] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/emacs-gtk-tabs/build'
make: *** [bootstrap] Error 2

This happens both on GNU/Linux Kubuntu 9.10 and on Cygwin. in the same 
manner.


Ciao,
Angelo.