Re: tab breakage yet again (XEmacs 21.2.29 is released.)

Manfred> When browsing with W3, I could tab between the last few Manfred> pages I had browsed -- nifty. But after a while the Manfred> gutter was overflowing with tabs, so maybe an algorithm Manfred> (LRU?) needs to be applied. Manfred> Working with C source files is neat too until the gutter Manfred> overflows, see above. LRU is in fact what is suppose to happen. Maybe you should set buffers-tab-max-size to something smaller (default is 6). Customize -> environment -> gutter -> buffers-tab. If you are seeing more buffers than buffers-tab-max-size, it's a bug. I don't know whether you can change buffers-tab-max-size on the fly successfully or not. You want docs? Docs, what docs? Mea culpa, I promised Andy some a while back, mostly done. Patch soon. Manfred> 1. I use a virtual desktop which is 2x3 screens and I Manfred> often have 4 or more xemacs frames scattered over them. Manfred> Maybe the tabs could be used to warp me to the Manfred> corresponding frame? Or maybe this could/should be done Manfred> with a ``Frame'' menu instead? I'm working on something similar to this. I use VM, and the standard buffer-tab filter selects up to 6 buffers with the sme mode. But for each folder VM has up to three buffers (the folder buffer itself, a Summary buffer, and possibly a Presentation buffer). What I need to do is (1) filter the extraneous buffers out (done) and (2) arrange that the tab callback sets up the right configuration in the frame. Manfred> In summary, I would suggest that the tabs have potential. Manfred> But then again, maybe enhancements of the menu system Manfred> would make more sense than having the tabs. Tabs are modal, intended to group things that are closely related but you don't normally work on at the same time. Menus are transient and asynchronous and thus in principle non-modal, while frames are persistent and asynchronous. Thus the three navigation methods are closely related but not perfect substitutes. Note that the menubar itself can be modal, eg, in VM and W3 there is a button to swap the app-specific menubar with the "generic" XEmacs menubar. This feels very much like the tab widget to me. -- University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Tel/fax: +81 (298) 53-5091 _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ What are those straight lines for? "XEmacs rules."