Re: [9fans] acme tag bars stacking

[yy <yiyu.jgl@gmail.com>]

On 28 October 2016 at 16:23, Mathieu Lonjaret
<mathieu.lonjaret@gmail.com> wrote:
> Anyway, does anyone know what the rationale was for choosing to stack
> them at the bottom? Or why it would be a a bad idea to make them stack
> at the top instead?

Let's suppose you have many windows in a column. When you work in one
of them, you B2 it and put it on the top of the stack. Then you work
on another one and it goes to the top, moving the previous one to the
second position, and so on. This way, your most recently used windows
are always on top, the least used ones go to the bottom of the stack.
I would find counterintuitive that the windows you used a longer time
ago stayed at the top, between your "working windows" and the column
and main tag lines.

But I would guess the main reason it works this way is that it seemed
more natural to move a window to the head than to the tail of a linked
list, and it just worked well enough.

I see how it may be more practical to stack them at the top when
working only with two or three windows, but it would be kind of weird
if you have ten. If you feel it will fit your workflow better, it is
probably not too difficult to get it done.


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