On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 1:38 AM, Nico Weber <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Jay,
>
> On 20.01.2009, at 16:22, Jay wrote:
>
> > I searched the wiki and help, but I don't see anything mentioned on
> > this - is it possible to move the tab bar to the bottom of the window
> > instead of the top? I would prefer the tab bar on the bottom but I
> > can't seem to find any way to do this.
>
> This not currently possible, and I doubt it will be possible soon.

Ah, bummer, I was hoping it was just a non-obvious option. Any
technical reason you don't think it will be added, or is it just a
design philosophy question? If there's no technical hurdle to it I
might be tempted to try adding it to my pile of programming side
projects to see if I can patch MacVim for it.

> This sounds like a surprising suggestion to me :-P I don't know any
> other programs that do this. Out of curiosity, can you give a few
> examples of programs that do this?

Well, I currently use iTerm with the tabs on the bottom, so that's my
main app used that way. Firefox can also have the tab bar at the
bottom. Most terminal emulators I've used on Windows Linux and OS X
allow this, including TCI, Konsole, Gnome-terminal, etc. I just find
it more natural to do "context switches" between sessions at the
bottom when I'm working in a terminal. Vim for obvious reasons is a
big part of my cmd prompt usage, so  it feels natural to have vim's
tabs be at the bottom too. Just a personal preference I suppose.

-Jay

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