From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
To: Ingo Lohmar <i.lohmar@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: include new package wconf.el in GNU ELPA
Date: Sat, 01 Aug 2015 12:50:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55BCA486.9050507@gmx.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d1z8h1n0.fsf@gnu.org>
> Yes, pretty much that. I don't have a real concept of a window other
> than a container for a buffer so I can't tell if a window W1 in window
> configuration WC1 is different to a window W2 in window configuration
> WC2. All I want is that when switching from WC1 to WC2, all buffers
> which are displayed by some window in both WC1 and WC2 keep their window
> point values from WC1.
>
> Of course, there are corner cases like some buffer being displayed in
> multiple windows in WC1 and/or WC2 which I haven't thought about yet.
>
>> I'm afraid that want you want cannot be achieved easily. In principle
>> we'd have to record for each window the last position of its buffer's
>> `point' at the time the window was selected together with a time
>> stamp.
>
> I think I'm fine with just the windows that are currently visible at the
> point in time where the window config switch happens.
>
>> When restoring the configuration we'd have to, for the selected
>> window, check whether its `point' should be moved to some youngest
>> previously stored position. What if the window where the last move
>> occurred was deleted before restoring the configuration?
>
> When I deleted it, then I don't care about it.
>
>> What if `point' moved at a time no window showing the buffer was
>> selected?
>
> Then I didn't move myself so that move is not interesting to me.
So your solution is hardly one that generalizes in a suitable way :-(
martin
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-01 10:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-30 15:31 include new package wconf.el in GNU ELPA Ingo Lohmar
2015-07-30 18:57 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-07-30 19:17 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-07-30 20:58 ` Ingo Lohmar
2015-07-31 5:35 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-07-31 7:10 ` martin rudalics
2015-07-31 8:27 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-07-31 9:56 ` martin rudalics
2015-07-31 13:39 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-08-01 10:50 ` martin rudalics
2015-08-03 7:45 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-07-31 9:24 ` Ingo Lohmar
2015-07-31 7:10 ` martin rudalics
2015-07-31 8:37 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-07-31 9:56 ` martin rudalics
2015-07-31 13:56 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-08-01 10:50 ` martin rudalics [this message]
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