Re: MY window tree!

["Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>]

martin rudalics wrote:
>  > Yes, it creates new windows and window local things will get broken. But
>  >  I do not understand what you mean with "overlay relationships" here.
>  > Emacs overlays (if that is what you mean) is tighed to the buffer, not
>  > the window.
> 
> Juanma explained that already.  It can be done as
> 
> (dolist (overlay (overlays-in (point-min) (point-max)))
>   (when (eq (overlay-get overlay 'window) old-window)
>      (overlay-put overlay 'window new-window)))
> 
>  > Maybe, but please be more specific about what will be missing when done
>  > on the lisp level.
> 
> On the Lisp level it might be difficult to handle `get-lru-window',
> `buffer-display-count', `buffer-display-time', and the `keep-margins'
> argument of `set-window-buffer'.  It should be possible to handle
> `window-dedicated-p', `window-scroll-bars', `window-fringes' but I don't
> remember them all.


buffer-display-time indeed looks difficult and I would hesitate to 
change buffer-display-count. The others look possible.