Andy, I use the tab widgets but I've been having lots of problems. 1] Sometimes clicking on them does nothing. 2] There's a design flaw: I frequently use M-C-l to switch to the previous buffer. If I use this in conjunction with the tabs, things get all screwed up because selecting a buffer with the tab does not bring it to the front of the buffer list, like it should. It looks like you're doing this to avoid having the order of the tabs change, but this is wrong: If you don't reorder the buffer list, everything else gets screwed up. If you want the order of the tabs not to change, you need to decouple this order from the buffer list order. ben Andy Piper wrote: -- Ben In order to save my hands, I am cutting back on my mail. I also write as succinctly as possible -- please don't be offended. If you send me mail, you _will_ get a response, but please be patient, especially for XEmacs-related mail. If you need an immediate response and it is not apparent in your message, please say so. Thanks for your understanding. See also http://www.666.com/ben/typing.html.

Ben> If you don't reorder the buffer list, everything else gets Ben> screwed up. If you want the order of the tabs not to change, Ben> you need to decouple this order from the buffer list order. I added a function variable to do user-definable sorting, but left it nil by default. It sounds like this is not what needs done though? It will only get called when Andy's code syncs to the buffer list anyway (that's the default when (eq buffers-tab-sort-function nil)). Unless Andy's changed that code since I last looked at it.... This should be in (Didier applied it). I don't have a current 21.2 xemacs available to test with (just made clean, building is slow here...). -- 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."

Andy> This fixes some of Olivier's weirdness. But there remains more weirdness. (Your patches are in, I checked explicitly, and I've got version 21.2.32 from CVS.) (0) Build --with-xim=xlib and --with-xfs. (1) Start XEmacs: LANG=BadLocale src/xemacs -vanilla Dunno if either of the configure options is necessary, or the bad locale. Does serve to generate an appropriate warning to put in the *Warnings* buffer, though. (2) Select *Warnings* from Buffer Menu. See tabs for *Warnings* and *Warnings-Show* (isn't that a bit excessive? why do we need both?) (3) Click on tab for *Warnings-Show*. See single tab for *Scratch*. Huh? Click on tab and get no response. Bang hard on tab and still no response. Oops. Installation: uname -a: Linux tleepslib 2.2.10 #2 Thu Jun 24 19:22:23 JST 1999 i686 unknown ./configure '--with-mule' '--with-widgets=athena' '--with-athena=xaw3d' '--with-xim=xlib' '--with-xfs' XEmacs 21.2-b32 "Kastor & Polydeukes" configured for `i686-pc-linux'. Where should the build process find the source code? /home/steve/Projects/XEmacs/xemacs-21.2 What installation prefix should install use? /usr/local What operating system and machine description files should XEmacs use? `s/linux.h' and `m/intel386.h' What compiler should XEmacs be built with? gcc -g -O3 -Wall -Wno-switch -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wmissing-prototypes -Wshadow Should XEmacs use the GNU version of malloc? yes (Using Doug Lea's new malloc from the GNU C Library.) Should XEmacs use the relocating allocator for buffers? no What window system should XEmacs use? x11 Where do we find X Windows header files? /usr/X11R6/include Where do we find X Windows libraries? /usr/X11R6/lib Athena library to link: Xaw3d Athena header include path: X11/Xaw3d Compiling in support for XAUTH. Compiling in support for XPM images. Compiling in support for PNG image handling. Compiling in support for (builtin) GIF image handling. Compiling in support for JPEG image handling. Compiling in support for TIFF image handling. Compiling in native sound support. Compiling in network sound (NAS) support. Compiling in support for Berkeley DB. Compiling in support for ncurses. Compiling in Mule (multi-lingual) support. Compiling in XIM (X11R5+ I18N input method) support. Using raw Xlib to provide XIM support. Using XFontSet to provide bilingual menubar. Compiling in support for Canna on Mule. Compiling in support for the WNN input method on Mule. Compiling in support for proper WM_COMMAND handling. Using Lucid menubars. Using Lucid scrollbars. Using Athena native widgets. Using Athena dialog boxes. Compiling in dynamic shared object module support. movemail will use "dot-locking" for locking mail spool files. Compiling in extra code for debugging. WARNING: --------------------------------------------------------- WARNING: Compiling in support for runtime error checking. WARNING: XEmacs will run noticeably more slowly as a result. WARNING: Error checking is on by default for XEmacs beta releases. WARNING: --------------------------------------------------------- -- 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."

Andy> At 05:39 AM 3/21/00 +0000, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: Andy> Try the patch I just posted, this should fix most of this. The operation was a success, but "He's _still_ dead, Jim." Identical symptoms: start xemacs -vanilla so as to generate a warning (I use a bad locale), select the *Warnings* buffer from the Buffers menu, select *Warnings-Show* using the tab, and get a frame with *Warnings* above, *Warnings-Show* (current) below, and a single tab *scratch* which does nothing. -- 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."