Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> When you switch from workspace A to workspace B, does your current
>> window configuration get recorded as workspace A?
>> That is an important aspect of Eclipse perspectives.
> 
> Indeed.  Try out my naive attempt at it (see attached) immediately bumps
> into a significant problem: window-configurations are frame-specific, so
> I can't create a winconf "test1" in a frame and then use it in
> another frame.
> 
>> needs to be possible to get all the right behavior.  For instance, we
>> want GUD to be able to take advantage of this, with a predefined "gud"
>> perspective.  This predefined "gud" perspective should have a window
> 
> This is another problem: window-configurations can't be saved&loaded.
> I.e. the tool we need is not `window-configuration' but some
> other object.  We can construct it all in Elisp from window-tree, but
> someone needs to write the code.


When we last talked about that I wrote the attached file. I have not 
looked at it or used it for a while so I am not sure if everything works 
right now.