Re: include new package wconf.el in GNU ELPA

[martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>]

 > Yes, pretty much that.  I don't have a real concept of a window other
 > than a container for a buffer so I can't tell if a window W1 in window
 > configuration WC1 is different to a window W2 in window configuration
 > WC2.  All I want is that when switching from WC1 to WC2, all buffers
 > which are displayed by some window in both WC1 and WC2 keep their window
 > point values from WC1.
 >
 > Of course, there are corner cases like some buffer being displayed in
 > multiple windows in WC1 and/or WC2 which I haven't thought about yet.
 >
 >> I'm afraid that want you want cannot be achieved easily.  In principle
 >> we'd have to record for each window the last position of its buffer's
 >> `point' at the time the window was selected together with a time
 >> stamp.
 >
 > I think I'm fine with just the windows that are currently visible at the
 > point in time where the window config switch happens.
 >
 >> When restoring the configuration we'd have to, for the selected
 >> window, check whether its `point' should be moved to some youngest
 >> previously stored position.  What if the window where the last move
 >> occurred was deleted before restoring the configuration?
 >
 > When I deleted it, then I don't care about it.
 >
 >> What if `point' moved at a time no window showing the buffer was
 >> selected?
 >
 > Then I didn't move myself so that move is not interesting to me.

So your solution is hardly one that generalizes in a suitable way :-(

martin