Tabbed windows on Emacs

Question

I\'m trying to get multiple tabs in windows like vim does it. In vim tabs aren\'t tied to buffers and you can have multiple tabs each with multiple splits and buffers in them. W

Answer 1

tabbar is by far the most popular package I think, but only shows tabs for buffers with the same mode you're editing (for instance, if you're working in a file in python-mode, it'll show tabs for all python-mode buffers only). That's the default behavior anyway; I'm pretty sure you could customize that if you wanted to. But my impression is that a popular way to manage multiple buffers in Emacs is with ibuffer and ido-mode. For instance, my .emacs customizations include

(require 'ido)
(ido-mode t)
(global-set-key "\C-x\C-b" 'ibuffer)