Re: Tabs are ready? -> Let us give a definition of tabs.

[martin rudalics]

> 1. at initialization it starts a grep and looks for something in background

How do you communicate to the tab what the "something" is?

> 2. The 'show event should commute to the buffer *grep*

This is the standard buffer switching functionality.

> 3. when grep finds something, and the tab is hidden , the tab widget to
> change the color

What sense does it make to have a hidden tab change color?  And what
kind of event is this in your nomenclature?

> 4. The 'close event should kill the *grep* buffer, and the process , if it
> had not finished yet

>  Could you do this using buttons in toolbar or menubar, as you insist ?

So far I'd only insist that saving and restoring window configurations
should be done with the menubar rather than with a tab.  I never ever
use toolbars but I think that mail handling routines using the toolbar
(could) do such things routinely (inform of new mail, kill a buffer and
remove the associated button when mail has been sent , ...).

martin