Re: MY window tree!

[martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>]

 > If not so, then do I not have to look at all overlays in all buffers?

You should look only at the overlays of buffers whose windows have
"changed".  That is, all buffers where a ovlwin-window association
exists such that window displays the buffer.

I think that after running winsav to its end you have four cases:

   The window existed before and exists now.  Ignore it. It's the same
   window and any overlays referencing it before still reference it.

   The window did not exist before but exists now.  Since you do not
   arbitrarily create new windows there must be a ovlwin-window
   association and the associated buffer's overlays may have to be
   updated.

   The window existed before and doesn't exist now (probably because it
   was discarded during splitting).  Ignore it.  Any overlay referencing
   that window won't be displayed in any other window.

   The window didn't exist before and doesn't now.  Ignore it trivially.

Note: An existing buffer cannot have an overlay referencing a window
you create.

 > I do not know if this is actually a problem, but if it is then it is a
 > good point in favor for a solution in C. However I do not expect the
 > functions in winsav.el to be called very frequently.

Initially you didn't want to bother about overlays at all, now you want
to check overlays in all buffers.  Initially you wanted to convince me
that you can do it in Lisp, now that you have nearly done it, you favor
a solution in C.  Alas, this will be hardly ever done in C, the window
related code is too hairy.  Yours could be perfect (if you just removed
the make-overlay stuff).