Karl Kleinpaste <karl(a)justresearch.com> writes:
I certainly expect new features to have bugs to be shaken out. But
tabs began appearing sometime in the early 21.2.teens, here we are at
.29, and today tabs can't even correlate with buffers present.
I am fairly sure it all works dandy on windows. Please remember that
Andy is fighting an uphill batttle against Xt (somehow I get the
feeling that Motif is wrongly blamed for its buggy-ness, because
despite desperate efforts other widgets beyond athena seem to have the
same problems). Let's do that Gtk port :-)
Andy, I don't mean to offend you personally, but one does have
to
wonder what experimentation with a fix happens before it lands in CVS.
Is it any surprise that such wonderment exists, when tabs literally
don't work at all?
[Note: I am fairly sure they do work. The redisplay engine simply
isn't showing them.]
Please read the comments that go along with Andy's patches. There is
probably some as yet undiscovered internal problem with the redisplay
engine internals that is causing all this.
The most frustrating part of this that it takes Andy's time away from
working on other usages of the gutter and the buffer widgets that may
have much more impact on usability. So in that sense I agree with out
sentiment.
Jan