From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: Window configurations Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 13:07:27 -0700 Message-ID: <02EF46FDFA504CC8ACFDA9ACCC169803@us.oracle.com> References: 87bpcv1wvt.fsf@mail.jurta.org <4BE1734B.6090705@gmx.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1273104360 24517 80.91.229.12 (6 May 2010 00:06:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 00:06:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "'grischka'" , Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 06 02:05:58 2010 connect(): No such file or directory 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O9obD-00057n-60 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 May 2010 02:05:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59498 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O9obC-0002Ej-IA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 May 2010 20:05:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1O9ky3-0005LA-Hg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 May 2010 16:13:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=45063 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O9kxu-0004Pw-Cq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 May 2010 16:13:13 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O9kt9-0003zm-Qy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 May 2010 16:08:13 -0400 Original-Received: from rcsinet10.oracle.com ([148.87.113.121]:20802) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O9kt9-0003zO-Gm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 May 2010 16:08:11 -0400 Original-Received: from acsinet15.oracle.com (acsinet15.oracle.com [141.146.126.227]) by rcsinet10.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.1) with ESMTP id o45K81GQ004695 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Wed, 5 May 2010 20:08:02 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt355.oracle.com (acsmt355.oracle.com [141.146.40.155]) by acsinet15.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.1) with ESMTP id o45DqtFM029390; Wed, 5 May 2010 20:07:58 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt021.oracle.com by acsmt353.oracle.com with ESMTP id 217370271273090046; Wed, 05 May 2010 13:07:26 -0700 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/130.35.178.194) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Wed, 05 May 2010 13:07:26 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <4BE1734B.6090705@gmx.de> Thread-index: AcrsiC0cbxMpoxBgSuWrDU6z4kqrSwABgzLw X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5579 X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-Source-IP: acsinet15.oracle.com [141.146.126.227] X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090207.4BE1D025.0035:SCFMA922111,ss=1,fgs=0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:124572 Archived-At: > > The point of set-window-configuration-from-sexp is to restore the > > configuration of windows, not to duplicate the functionality of > > desktop.el. > > FWIW I think the introduction of window-configurations (as API) was > a mistake and let them save to file is an even bigger mistake. > > Really not every kludge is a feature and in this case the best you can > do is to get rid of it. Just a suggestion - It can help others if you give _reasons_ why you feel the way you do. That might even persuade others who would feel the same way if they knew your reasons.