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[PATCH] Specify 'tab-bar-history-mode' in 'winner-mode' docstring

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From: Ship Mints <shipmints <at> gmail.com>
To: Visuwesh <visuweshm <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, stephen.berman <at> gmx.net, 76439 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, rpluim <at> gmail.com, juri <at> linkov.net
Subject: bug#76439: [PATCH] Specify 'tab-bar-history-mode' in 'winner-mode' docstring
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2025 10:15:44 -0500

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Unexpected results suffices for me.  I don't see a need to be more explicit.

On Sun, Feb 23, 2025 at 10:04 AM Visuwesh <visuweshm <at> gmail.com> wrote:

> This still doesn't say what the anomalous behaviour is, so I am not sure
> we should use this either.
>
> On 23 February 2025 17:48:22 GMT+05:30, Ship Mints <shipmints <at> gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >On Sun, Feb 23, 2025 at 1:11 AM Visuwesh <visuweshm <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> [வெள்ளி பிப்ரவரி 21, 2025] Ship Mints wrote:
> >>
> >> > Not sure what it means to "turn" a window configuration.  Perhaps
> >> something
> >> > like below is simpler and gets the salient point across and adds the
> key
> >> > binding information winner-mode users might find to be helpful
> >> > encouragement.
> >> >
> >> > If you use `tab-bar-mode', consider using `tab-bar-history-mode', as
> >> > `winner-mode' is unaware of tab switching, and can confuse `tab-bar'
> >> > window configurations.  `tab-bar-history-mode' provides
> >> > tab-specific window configuration history, avoiding this problem, and
> >> > its default key bindings match those of `winner-mode'.
> >>
> >> I find "can confuse `tab-bar' window configurations" lacking in detail.
> >> If the problem is the verb "turn", what do you think about using
> >> "change" or "replace" instead?
> >>
> >
> >How about "`winner-mode' window-configuration histories are tab naive, and
> >will produce unexpected results when used with `tab-bar-mode`."
>

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