Tabs in Emacs
RMS (Richard M. Stallman for the un-initated) recently marvelled at the tabs in Eclipse. You can have something similar, albeit old-school by installing Tabbar for Emacs. Emacs 21.4 on my work machine doesn't have it pre-installed although I think the newer versions of Emacs do contain Tabbar.
1) Download the tar.gz file from here. Extract the tabbar.el file to your desktop.
2) Start up Emacs, press M-x byte-compile-file and press Enter. Then type in the path to tabbar.el file. A new file called tabbar.elc will be created.
3) This tabbar.elc file now has to be put into your Emacs load path after probably becoming root. For my machine it is at:
/usr/share/emacs/21.4/lisp
4) Open up your .emacs file and put in:
;;Setting up tabbar
(require 'tabbar)
(tabbar-mode)
5) Restart Emacs and you should be set. The default look and feel of Tabbar is pretty ugly. (What did you expect?) So head onto Amit's blog to read how he went about customizing it.
1) Download the tar.gz file from here. Extract the tabbar.el file to your desktop.
2) Start up Emacs, press M-x byte-compile-file and press Enter. Then type in the path to tabbar.el file. A new file called tabbar.elc will be created.
3) This tabbar.elc file now has to be put into your Emacs load path after probably becoming root. For my machine it is at:
/usr/share/emacs/21.4/lisp
4) Open up your .emacs file and put in:
;;Setting up tabbar
(require 'tabbar)
(tabbar-mode)
5) Restart Emacs and you should be set. The default look and feel of Tabbar is pretty ugly. (What did you expect?) So head onto Amit's blog to read how he went about customizing it.
