Re: Gtk tabs in emacs, new branch

[David Kastrup]

Juri Linkov <address@hidden> writes:

>> Observations: I see that in Options | Show/Hide Tabs are on by default
>> (good!), but when I start Emacs I do not see any tabs. I still need 'M-x
>> tab-new' to see some tab. I would expect that, if Tabs are on by default,
>> starting Emacs shows desktop buffers in tabs, at least compatibly with the
>> starting 'geometry' of Emacs.
>
> I implemented a new command line argument, so a command:
>
>   emacs --tabs file1 file2 file3
>
> will open each file in a new tab.

That should be the default in a tab-capable Emacs when more than one
file is specified.

> And
>
>   emacsclient --create-tab
>
> creates a new tab on the current Emacs frame.

Again, I don't see a necessity for a new option.  If Emacs is configured
to open a new frame, all given files should appear in tabs of this
frame.  If not, all given files should appear in tabs in the existing
selected frame, in front of existing tabs.

-- 
David Kastrup