Re: Re: [nbdev] Too many editor tabs?

On Mar 20, 2006, at 5:48 PM, Ivan Soleimanipour wrote:

> buffers are implementation artifacts and it's high time we get rid of
> them being visible to the user.

Uhm, we must be talking about different things.

A buffer to me in the emacs sense is an open "file" I can edit,  
except it doesn't have to have a representation on disk (e.g. a  
"file"). For example I can create a new document (like in a word  
processor) that hasn't yet been saved or even named.

An editor can hold multiple of these things (buffers) and let me  
switch between which one is on top (visible/editable).

I think this is a key part of the user model in any editor, not an  
implementation artifact.  Is it the term "buffer" you object to or  
the concept?

-- Tor