Re: MY window tree!

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

martin rudalics wrote:
>  > I have uploaded a preliminary version of winsav.el to
>  >
>  >   http://ourcomments.org/Emacs/DL/elisp/test/winsav.el
>  >
>
> The problem is that the split-windows below will create *new* windows
> rather than "reuse" the old ones.  Hence any overlay relationships and
> other window-local things get broken by this.

Yes, it creates new windows and window local things will get broken. But 
 I do not understand what you mean with "overlay relationships" here. 
Emacs overlays (if that is what you mean) is tighed to the buffer, not 
the window.


>       (dolist (subtree (cdddr saved-tree))
>         (add-to-list 'wtree
>                      (cons
>                       (if ver
>                           (split-window-vertically)
>                         (split-window-horizontally))
>                       subtree)
>                      t)
>
> IMO there's no way around retaining sequence numbers of windows when
> saving and restoring window trees.  Hardly possible when done at the
> Lisp level.


Maybe, but please be more specific about what will be missing when done 
on the lisp level.