From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Sperber Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Window configuration UI Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 17:27:02 +0100 Message-ID: References: <873aqia0eh.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <47EA1A50.3030101@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1206808532 9677 80.91.229.12 (29 Mar 2008 16:35:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:35:32 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 29 17:35:42 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Jfe1u-0006v1-KP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Mar 2008 17:35:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jfe1J-0003ek-8b for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Mar 2008 12:35:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jfdte-0005ie-H3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Mar 2008 12:27:10 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jfdtc-0005en-Si for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Mar 2008 12:27:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jfdtc-0005eU-LL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Mar 2008 12:27:08 -0400 Original-Received: from h615406.serverkompetenz.net ([81.169.143.132]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jfdtc-0002k5-25 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Mar 2008 12:27:08 -0400 Original-Received: from h615406.serverkompetenz.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by h615406.serverkompetenz.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25591170DE for ; Sat, 29 Mar 2008 17:27:05 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from valmont.local (p5B20695A.dip.t-dialin.net [91.32.105.90]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by h615406.serverkompetenz.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7965170AF for ; Sat, 29 Mar 2008 17:27:04 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: by valmont.local (Postfix, from userid 2246) id 6296D22F6F7; Sat, 29 Mar 2008 17:27:02 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:14:30 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) XEmacs/21.5-b28 (darwin) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 6.x (1) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 12:34:52 -0400 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:93813 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >> It would be interesting to try replacing the current >> window-configuration code with winsav.el, to see if it is fast enough. >> It seems to me that `winsav-get-window-tree' could be made a lot >> faster, especially by writing it in C. But I don't know if it needs >> to be any faster. > > It doesn't seem to be noticeably slow. But it does not provide a 100% > replacement for the window-configuration functions (mostly because of > the issue of preserving window-identity vs. creating new windows). > Not sure how important it is. IIUC XEmacs has switched to such an > Elisp-only implementation of window-configurations so they probably kno= w > more about the impact of this incompatibility. There wasn't a noticeable performance impact, but a small number of packages (used to) depend on preservation of window identity. Most recently, ECB broke on XEmacs 21.5 because of this, but we've since worked out a fix that I expect to apply shortly. --=20 Cheers =3D8-} Mike Friede, V=F6lkerverst=E4ndigung und =FCberhaupt blabla