Re: Next pretest

[David De La Harpe Golden]

alin.s wrote:
> Tabs are also ready. For the console it's completely finished; for GTK I
> have to make the latests modifications. For Lesstif and Athena I just found
> some notebook widgets, and have to learn how to use them.


Um. What sort of tabs?  Last time I tuned in (some time ago), people had 
very different ideas about how tabs should work.

For my part, I presently have a half-formed notion they should be 
another dimension for emacs window splitting along with horizontal and 
vertical, and therefore an aspect of window configurations.  Notably, I 
don't have any working code though.

Another option which I looked into at one stage was toplevel-only tabs 
that collected and switched between whole emacs frames. i.e. tabs 
"outside" frames.  The gtk+ notebook container widget model was 
particular suitable for that approach IIRC, as it was sort of emulating 
a tabbed window manager internal to gtk+, and gave you drag-drop and 
rearrangement for "free", but I eventually thought the window splitting 
model was more emacsy and general.

The one thing I really don't like is the idea of tabs-as-list-of-buffers 
- simply doesn't scale well to even my typical open buffer count (10s 
rather than 100s.), and is a waste of what could be a more versatile ui 
feature for the likes of IDE-type modes.

Or maybe you meant buffer-embedded emacs tab/notebook widgets, an 
entirely different matter and independent of the other kind of
tabbing.