Re: MY window tree!

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

martin rudalics wrote:
>  >>  > I can not see why only displayed buffers should be interesting. A
>  >> buffer
>  >>  > that is not currently displayed could also have a 'window property
>  >>  > pointing to some of those windows we are interested in. Or?
>  >>
>  >> No.  A dead window is never resurrected.  The window property of that
>  >> overlay is of no use until you reassign it the value of a live window.
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  > Maybe we are miscommunicating. I am talking about displayed BUFFERS
>  > while I wonder if you and Juanma perhaps talks about displayed WINDOWS.
>  >
>  > Or am I misunderstanding something?
> 
> Above you said "a buffer ... could have a 'window property".  I don't
> know of such a property of a buffer.  I've been always talking about
> overlays with a 'window property.  Overlays belong to a buffer.  Note
> that a buffer can have two or more overlays with different window
> properties.  Hence the buffer's text may appear differently when it is
> simultaneously displayed in two windows.  When I remove the 'window
> property from an overlay the overlay should appear in all windows
> displaying the buffer the overlay belongs to.


Sorry, I should have written "A buffer that is not currently displayed 
IN ANY WINDOW could also have AN OVERLAY WITH a 'window property...".

This was supposed to be the answer to your question "Why check all 
buffers?" - I still do not understand what you mean here. Did you want 
to write all WINDOWS?