A modernised tabbar with ruler.
[[file:tabbar-ruler.el][tabbar-ruler.el]] is an emacs package that allows both the tabbar and the ruler to be used together. In addition it allows auto-hiding of the menu-bar and tool-bar.
Appearance originally created on reverse engineering /Aquaemacs/, now improved too looks and feel of modern GUI.
Getting it ** Requirements
| package | version | |------------+----------| | emacs | >= 23 | | [[https://github.com/dholm][tabbar]] | >= 2.0.1 | | [[https://github.com/milkypostman/powerline][powerline]] | >= 2.3 | | [[https://github.com/ryuslash/mode-icons][mode-icons]] | >= 0.10 |
/tabbar-ruler/ package can be found are el-get and MELPA.
** Manual To use library in your load path and use
(setq tabbar-ruler-global-tabbar t) ; get tabbar
(setq tabbar-ruler-global-ruler t) ; get global ruler
(setq tabbar-ruler-popup-menu t) ; get popup menu.
(setq tabbar-ruler-popup-toolbar t) ; get popup toolbar
(setq tabbar-ruler-popup-scrollbar t) ; show scroll-bar on mouse-move
(require 'tabbar-ruler)Configuration ** Buffer Groups The default behavior for tabbar-ruler is to group the tabs by frame. You can change this back to the old-behavior by:
(tabbar-ruler-group-buffer-groups)
or by issuing the following code:
(setq tabbar-buffer-groups-function 'tabbar-buffer-groups)
In addition, you can also group by projectile project easily by:
(tabbar-ruler-group-by-projectile-project)
** Key Bindings You can add key-bindings to change the current tab. The easiest way to add the bindings is to add a key like:
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c t") 'tabbar-ruler-move)After that, all you would need to press is Control+c t and then the arrow keys will allow you to change the buffer quite easily. To exit the buffer movement you can press enter or space.