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Emacs 27.0.50: [Feature request for tabs] Create new tab with a name.

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From: HaiJun Zhang <netjune <at> outlook.com>
To: Trevor Murphy via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
 <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Emacs 27.0.50: [Feature request for tabs] Create new tab with a name.
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2019 09:45:18 +0800

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I’m using macOS. Tab-bar-mode UI is not supported on macOS. The UI is not too important to me.
I want to use tabs like this:

1. create new every tab with a name
2. switch to a named tab

For 1, can tab-new prompts for a name to create the tab? Like when running with C-u M-x tab-new? Or provide a new command like tab-new-with-name?

For 2, is there a command which can switch to a named tab? It prompts for the name of the tab to switch to.

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From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
To: HaiJun Zhang <netjune <at> outlook.com>
Cc: 38681 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#38681: Emacs 27.0.50: [Feature request for tabs] Create new
 tab with a name.
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2019 01:21:28 +0200

> I’m using macOS. Tab-bar-mode UI is not supported on macOS. The UI is not too important to me.
> I want to use tabs like this:
>
> 1. create new every tab with a name
> 2. switch to a named tab
>
> For 1, can tab-new prompts for a name to create the tab? Like when
> running with C-u M-x tab-new? Or provide a new command like
> tab-new-with-name?
>
> For 2, is there a command which can switch to a named tab? It prompts
> for the name of the tab to switch to.

Yes, there is the new command 'C-x t RET' developed in bug#38624.

What do you think about using 'C-x t RET' to create a new tab
with the provided name?

This could work like 'C-x b': when there is a buffer with that name
already exists, then switch to it, otherwise create a new buffer
with that name.

'C-x t RET' could work the same way: when there is a tab with that name
already exists, then switch to it, otherwise create a new tab
with that name.

Message #11 received at 38681 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: HaiJun Zhang <netjune <at> outlook.com>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: 38681 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#38681: Emacs 27.0.50: [Feature request for tabs] Create
 new tab with a name.
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2019 19:12:28 +0800

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在 2019年12月22日 +0800 AM7:23，Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>，写道：
> Yes, there is the new command ‘C-x t RET' developed in bug#38624.
>

Thanks.

> What do you think about using 'C-x t RET' to create a new tab
> with the provided name?
>
> This could work like 'C-x b': when there is a buffer with that name
> already exists, then switch to it, otherwise create a new buffer
> with that name.
>
> 'C-x t RET' could work the same way: when there is a tab with that name
> already exists, then switch to it, otherwise create a new tab
> with that name.

It is OK. If it doesn’t create new tab, it will be better to me.

I think I will not create too many tabs. Instead, I will create constant number of tabs like this:
1. “source code”: for editing source code
2. “docs”: for editing documents
3. “debug": the debug view
4. “notes”: for writing notes, often with org mode files
5. “email”: for reading email with gnus

I will create these tabs in my emacs config file. And I think I will hardly create any temporary tabs and tabs other than the constant ones.
So I would like ‘C-x t RET’ not to create new tab when I input a tab name with typo. Or I want a command which just switches to an existing tab and doesn’t create new tabs.

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Message #14 received at 38681 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
To: HaiJun Zhang <netjune <at> outlook.com>
Cc: 38681 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#38681: Emacs 27.0.50: [Feature request for tabs] Create new
 tab with a name.
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2019 00:54:24 +0200

merge 38681 38624
quit

> So I would like ‘C-x t RET’ not to create new tab when I input a tab
> name with typo.  Or I want a command which just switches to an
> existing tab and doesn’t create new tabs.

Ok, so I'm merging this with bug#38624 where ‘C-x t RET' was developed.

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