elscreen only shows one tab

[Tahir Hassan]

I have installed ElScreen using list-packages, and I have the below in the init.el file:

(require 'elscreen)
(elscreen-start)

but then when I open a file file-a.txt, it will only show me the current filename in tab bar. I open a another file file-b.txt, that the tab bar will only show one tab for file-b.txt - file-a.txt is not listed.

Is there any method of showing all open buffers - with the exception of * Messages * and * scratch *?

[Josh Hunsaker]

@tahir-hassan: I think you are misunderstanding the purpose of this extensions. The tabs are not intended to represent buffers. It is more like each tab represents a new emacs frame.

Try C-z c to get a new tab, and then visit file-b.txt. Now you can use C-z a to toggle between the two tabs.