From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 14964@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#14964: 24.3.50; doc of `compare-window-configurations'
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2013 10:40:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51F4D8FF.6000703@gmx.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cd95a838-3d1d-4def-8bea-b5a532c2144e@default>
> So based on that info I do not understand why this was ever added as a Lisp
> function. Perhaps someone thought we might do more with it in the future?
> Or perhaps it was thought that this would be faster than calling `equal' etc.,
> which have to test a few things before then get to invoking this.
>
> Whatever the rationale, this function has been around for a long time.
Maybe the idea was to not create anew a configuration that was already
saved.
> 3. I would also like to see functions that accept or produce window and frame
> configurations optionally accept and produce also Lisp-readable equivalents.
>
> IOW, today, such configurations always use actual window and frame objects,
> which are not Lisp-readable. I would like to see them optionally (e.g. via
> optional arguments) use Lisp-readable frame and window states. IOW, make
> it simple to persist such configurations.
With window states I tried to approximate window configurations as close
as possible. I don't know enough about frames to do the same for them.
I bet that currently Juanma knows best whether this can be done in some
reasonable way.
martin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-28 8:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-27 3:14 bug#14964: 24.3.50; doc of `compare-window-configurations' Drew Adams
2013-07-27 8:18 ` martin rudalics
2013-07-27 19:39 ` Drew Adams
2013-07-28 8:40 ` martin rudalics [this message]
2013-07-28 14:49 ` Drew Adams
2013-07-28 16:57 ` Juanma Barranquero
2013-07-28 18:56 ` Drew Adams
2013-07-29 2:14 ` Juanma Barranquero
2013-07-29 23:56 ` Drew Adams
2013-07-30 1:05 ` Juanma Barranquero
2013-07-30 9:13 ` martin rudalics
2013-07-29 7:55 ` martin rudalics
2013-07-29 23:53 ` Drew Adams
2013-07-30 0:18 ` Juanma Barranquero
2013-07-30 9:13 ` martin rudalics
2013-07-30 14:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-07-28 19:53 ` Josh
2013-07-28 20:33 ` Drew Adams
2013-07-29 7:54 ` martin rudalics
2022-04-21 13:42 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-20 2:23 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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