Re: Neat features in Eclipse editor

[Bastien]

address@hidden writes:

> Sub-frames are not like windows, they are like frames, because they
> contain windows and are not affected by what happens in other frames.

(Maybe using "workspace" instead of "sub-frames" might help clarifying
things a bit.)

> Tabs are usually complementary to the feature I try describe.

The first time I talked about "workspaces" was when I tried to explain
my use of tabs with elscreen:

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/87765

Sorry for the self-quote, but it sounds like ideas there can help
describe a workspace from yet another perspective:

,----[ http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/87765 ]
| It seems to me that, in this discussion, we should really talk about
| "workspaces" - not "tabs".  Or at least we could disambiguate these and
| use "tab" for the visual UI feature and "workspace" for the underlying
| window configuration (and the properties we would like to attach to it.)
| 
| I use elscreen to easily *cycle* through workspaces and to easily
| *create* new ones.
| 
| Having "workspaces" (or whatever you want to call them) would be very
| useful for letting variables be local to them.  For example I use this:
| 
|   (make-variable-buffer-local 'search-ring)
| 
| but this would make more sense in a workspace rather than in a buffer.
| 
| Or see the function `erc-iswitchb': it restricts the list of buffers to
| the one that are used by ERC.  I've implemented something like this for
| Org as well.  If you use ERC in a dedicated workspace, then the notion
| of "ERC buffers" is really an instance of the more general notion of
| "This workspace buffers."
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Bastien