Re: Suggesting `frame-split-biggest-window' Re: customize location and shape of a new window in a frame

[martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>]

 >> It would be nice to have some sort of basic, prefabricated layouts
 >> like the ones you sketched and choose from them (though a four window
 >> layout with a different window in each corner of them frame would
 >> still require to know whether the root window is a vertical or
 >> horizontal combination).  But I have no good idea yet which layout
 >> types are really needed and how to provide a suitable interface for
 >> accessing them.  IIRC the "Emacs IDE" had provisions for them but I
 >> have not heard from its developers for years.
 >
 > I thought this is what side windows are for? Maybe it would be tricky to
 > save and restore whole-frame window configurations (though there are
 > other tools for that), but side windows, combined perhaps with atomic
 > windows, seem like the right tool for making rectangular compositions.
 > The docs even say something about making Emacs look like a traditional
 > IDE, etc...

The intention of side windows was to provide a framework for ECB (the
Emacs Code Browser) to embed such layouts without the need to advice
basic window functions.  Unfortunately, work on ECB seems to have
stalled a decade ago and nobody seems very interested in continuing
it.

martin