GNU bug report logs - #32850
27.0.50; window-swap-states doesn't swap window prev/next-buffers

Previous Next

Full log

View this message in rfc822 format

From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: 32850 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#32850: 27.0.50; window-swap-states doesn't swap window prev/next-buffers
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2018 09:52:45 +0100

> I don't use the mouse.  Whereas window-local tab-bar showing a list
> of prev/next-buffers allows using the keyboard to navigate.
> For example, when the window-local tab-bar shows such tabs:
>
> [buffer-2] [buffer-1] [current-buffer] [buffer+1] [buffer+2]
>
> Then I know that I can just type `C-2 C-x left' to get to the second
> previous buffer, or to get the second next buffer with `C-2 C-x right'.

Then we at least facultatively should show that prefix number in the
tab.  In either case you don't necessarily need window-local tabs for
that.  We could have the frame's tabbar show tabs in the order of the
frame's selected window.

martin

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.