gnome, emacs and tabs

Mike Small smallm at panix.com
Fri Dec 19 14:10:24 EST 2003


Funny, I just assumed he ment tabs as in "tabbed browsing."  In fact
I was going to suggest he check out xemacs and their gtk
port, but I couldn't find a screenshot with tabs, and someone
wrote that it isn't stable.  Which was it, tab characters or
a tabbed user interface?

- Mike

On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 12:41:33PM -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote:
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> On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 12:00:24 -0500
> Douglas Moore <Douglas.Moore at Sun.COM> wrote:
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> > I have seen some emacs running on linux that have tabs displayed for 
> > each buffer. I can't seem to find how to set this option.
> > 
> > Can this be done with emacs 21.2.1? If so how?
> AFAIK, emacs 21.2.1 will not display tab as an octal or as ^I:
> The emacs variable, ctl-arrow, is the one that controls how control
> characters are displayed in buffers, but the documentation states that
> tab characters are always displayed as whitespace.
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> - -- 
> Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>



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