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You don't need tabs in Emacs; use buffer instead. Helm has a really good interface to navigate open buffers. I usually have 30-50 buffers open in my emacs. Now

You don't need tabs in Emacs; use buffer instead. Helm has a really good interface to navigate open buffers. I usually have 30-50 buffers open in my emacs. Now how does vim handle that many buffers?

gpderetta 10y ago
For what is worth, I have currently 755 buffers open on my emacs session. That's probably on the low side as I restarted my session recently (i.e. in the last 7 days). I usually have 8 buffers showing (vertical + horizontal split across two windows) at any one time. I don't even known how a tabbed interface would look like in this setup. I use ido-switch-buffer instead of helm for quick switching. Should I switch to helm?
- brewski 10y ago
  I have an elisp function that opens every file in the projects I'm currently working on. I run it when I start a new session. 1790 buffers 20295782 1774 files, 1 process
  - unhammer 10y ago
    I prefer lazy-loading both packages and files, but still having recently-worked-on files available for quick opening, since I sometimes do restart Emacs :) With the below form in my .emacs.d/init.el, I can restart Emacs and the first time I do C-x b I get to pick from files I had opened in the previous session: (use-package ido :init (setq ido-use-virtual-buffers t) ; treat closed files as open buffers for C-x b :config (ido-mode 1) (ido-everywhere 1) (use-package recentf :init (setq recentf-auto-cleanup 7200 ; clean list on idle rather than startup recentf-max-saved-items 2000) :config (recentf-mode 1))) That is, ido-use-virtual-buffers will put closed buffers at the end of the buffer list, while recentf makes that list of previously closed buffers persistent across sessions. Also, after opening vc-tracked files, I want subsequent find-file calls to match on all non-ignored subdirectories of that repo, not just the directory of the current file, so I use ffir to add tracked subdirectories to ido's work directories: (use-package find-file-in-repository :ensure t :config (setq ffir-avoid-HOME-repository nil) (defun ffir-repo-subdirectories () "Use ffir to put projects into ido-work-directories. This makes useful files show up even if you haven't been to that sub-folder yet." ;; TODO: compare emacs25 project-find-file (interactive) (let* ((repo-directory (expand-file-name (ffir-locate-dominating-file default-directory (lambda (directory) (ffir-directory-contains-which-file ffir-repository-types directory))))) (file-list (funcall (ffir-directory-contains-which-file ffir-repository-types repo-directory) repo-directory)) dir-list) (mapc (lambda (p) (add-to-list 'dir-list (file-name-directory (cdr p)))) file-list) dir-list)) (defadvice ido-merge-work-directories (before advice-merge-repo-subdirs first nil activate) (mapc (lambda (d) (add-to-list 'ido-work-directory-list d)) (ffir-repo-subdirectories)))) (ffir is a fairly small dependency for a vc-general "list-non-ignored-files", though perhaps there's something built-in in Emacs' vc.el I should be using instead)
cosarara97 10y ago
There are multiple helm-like plugins for vim, which can be used to change buffers. Tabs, on the other hand, are used so that you can, for example, have a tab with a vertical split and buffers A and B, and another tab with just one big buffer, and so on.
- curiousdude99 10y ago
  Well then you could try perspective-el for emacs

You don't need tabs in Emacs; use buffer instead. Helm has a really good interface to navigate open buffers. I usually have 30-50 buffers open in my emacs. Now how does vim handle that many buffers?

gpderetta 10y ago

For what is worth, I have currently 755 buffers open on my emacs session. That's probably on the low side as I restarted my session recently (i.e. in the last 7 days). I usually have 8 buffers showing (vertical + horizontal split across two windows) at any one time. I don't even known how a tabbed interface would look like in this setup. I use ido-switch-buffer instead of helm for quick switching. Should I switch to helm?

brewski 10y ago
I have an elisp function that opens every file in the projects I'm currently working on. I run it when I start a new session. 1790 buffers 20295782 1774 files, 1 process
- unhammer 10y ago
  I prefer lazy-loading both packages and files, but still having recently-worked-on files available for quick opening, since I sometimes do restart Emacs :) With the below form in my .emacs.d/init.el, I can restart Emacs and the first time I do C-x b I get to pick from files I had opened in the previous session: (use-package ido :init (setq ido-use-virtual-buffers t) ; treat closed files as open buffers for C-x b :config (ido-mode 1) (ido-everywhere 1) (use-package recentf :init (setq recentf-auto-cleanup 7200 ; clean list on idle rather than startup recentf-max-saved-items 2000) :config (recentf-mode 1))) That is, ido-use-virtual-buffers will put closed buffers at the end of the buffer list, while recentf makes that list of previously closed buffers persistent across sessions. Also, after opening vc-tracked files, I want subsequent find-file calls to match on all non-ignored subdirectories of that repo, not just the directory of the current file, so I use ffir to add tracked subdirectories to ido's work directories: (use-package find-file-in-repository :ensure t :config (setq ffir-avoid-HOME-repository nil) (defun ffir-repo-subdirectories () "Use ffir to put projects into ido-work-directories. This makes useful files show up even if you haven't been to that sub-folder yet." ;; TODO: compare emacs25 project-find-file (interactive) (let* ((repo-directory (expand-file-name (ffir-locate-dominating-file default-directory (lambda (directory) (ffir-directory-contains-which-file ffir-repository-types directory))))) (file-list (funcall (ffir-directory-contains-which-file ffir-repository-types repo-directory) repo-directory)) dir-list) (mapc (lambda (p) (add-to-list 'dir-list (file-name-directory (cdr p)))) file-list) dir-list)) (defadvice ido-merge-work-directories (before advice-merge-repo-subdirs first nil activate) (mapc (lambda (d) (add-to-list 'ido-work-directory-list d)) (ffir-repo-subdirectories)))) (ffir is a fairly small dependency for a vc-general "list-non-ignored-files", though perhaps there's something built-in in Emacs' vc.el I should be using instead)

cosarara97 10y ago

There are multiple helm-like plugins for vim, which can be used to change buffers. Tabs, on the other hand, are used so that you can, for example, have a tab with a vertical split and buffers A and B, and another tab with just one big buffer, and so on.

curiousdude99 10y ago
Well then you could try perspective-el for emacs