bug#17589: 24.3.91; lisp/frameset.el

[Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>]

On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 2:22 AM, Stefan Monnier
<monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:

> Or to always save window-state in a "non-writable" form, and then
> provide a separate function to turn this into a writable form.  If we
> can always know right from the start if we'll write the window-state,
> then we don't need that, but if we may sometimes need a window-state
> which we may or may not later write to a file, then a separate function
> would be needed.

I thought of it, but then that "carries over" to framesets, and
suddenly you need a function to make a frameset writable, as they
would by default be non-writable (because, as this bug shows, you do
not know beforehand if you will want to write a frameset or not). Very
ugly, IMO.

    J