From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Window configurations Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 23:23:32 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87mxvfvn5b.fsf@mail.jurta.org> References: <4BB4CF6B.2000007@alice.it> <87r5m4hz39.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <4BD40821.70808@gmx.at> <87zl0rtmqy.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <871vdu6qn5.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87bpcv1wvt.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <4BE13828.2030609@gmx.at> <87vdb2qo82.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <4BE27C17.3030005@gmx.at> <87vdav4vx5.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <4BE900E7.3090402@gmx.at> <87r5liqv8f.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <4BEA74DC.2060103@gmx.at> <87y6fns8qo.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <4BECF4D6.9030707@gmx.at> <87632na2af.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <4C03F1B5.8040708@gmx.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1275337499 9385 80.91.229.12 (31 May 2010 20:24:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 20:24:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: martin rudalics , Stefan Monnier , Emacs To: Lennart Borgman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 31 22:24:57 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 1OJBXc-0005Bf-Dv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 31 May 2010 22:24:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38648 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OJBXb-0000JD-Jp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 31 May 2010 16:24:55 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=41725 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OJBXO-0000EZ-9j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 May 2010 16:24:43 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OJBXM-00030P-NU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 May 2010 16:24:42 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp-out1.starman.ee ([85.253.0.3]:40422 helo=mx1.starman.ee) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OJBXM-000307-Dv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 May 2010 16:24:40 -0400 X-Virus-Scanned: by Amavisd-New at mx1.starman.ee Original-Received: from mail.starman.ee (85.253.48.75.cable.starman.ee [85.253.48.75]) by mx1.starman.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC3D23F40AE; Mon, 31 May 2010 23:24:36 +0300 (EEST) In-Reply-To: (Lennart Borgman's message of "Mon, 31 May 2010 21:12:33 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:125409 Archived-At: >> The use of `point' for that has not brought many complaints over the >> many years it's been used. Any reason to think it's a bad choice? > > Could that be because people are using winpoint.el instead of > complaining. At least that is what I do. Yes, it seems people are using various tricks to workaround this limitation (I prefer a view.el-like trick). > But I really think Emacs should solve this internally by using > window-point instead of point. winpoint is nice but does not solve the > whole problem (and it may interfere badly with other code for window > configuration, perhaps). Is winpoint.el too intrusive? I think we should try storing window point positions in the window-local buffer list. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/