A modernised tabbar with ruler.

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.

tabbar-ruler package can be found are el-get and MELPA.

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)

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)

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.