From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Window configurations Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 10:50:40 -0400 Message-ID: References: <4BB4CF6B.2000007@alice.it> <4BC0F715.2060605@alice.it> <45EB8DD4-B0F8-4FB3-941F-13FADA4DAD66@swipnet.se> <4BC1854B.2060409@alice.it> <4BC1A9D2.8050607@swipnet.se> <4BC206C0.2010202@alice.it> <87fx2pdvfq.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87y6gg95ad.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <750140A47B7D4FBD93371813D65478F8@us.oracle.com> <87eii63v4j.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <0840B3F4D9E84706874EDD2CA2CC4236@us.oracle.com> <87vdbhgqgd.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <828BB36311A84C43B96D1F2A559DACAE@us.oracle.com> <87d3xo662u.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <69D40D69CC6F4982A8E91D8D8F0F494F@us.oracle.com> <87r5m4hz39.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <4BD40821.70808@gmx.at> <87zl0rtmqy.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <4BD5BC62.5070306@gmx.at> <53146.130.55.118.19.1272398101.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> <4BD7DFF8.50009@gmx.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1272466255 19324 80.91.229.12 (28 Apr 2010 14:50:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 14:50:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juri Linkov , 'Emacs' To: martin rudalics Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 28 16:50:52 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 1O78bC-0006VZ-GC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Apr 2010 16:50:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36843 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O78bB-0001o1-OS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Apr 2010 10:50:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1O78b7-0001n1-MV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Apr 2010 10:50:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=56150 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O78b6-0001mR-BK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Apr 2010 10:50:45 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O78b4-00067N-Cw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Apr 2010 10:50:43 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.183]:29947 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O78b4-00067E-A7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Apr 2010 10:50:42 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvsEALvn10vO+KoL/2dsb2JhbACcbnK9RoUOBIwT X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.52,288,1270440000"; d="scan'208";a="62759888" Original-Received: from 206-248-170-11.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([206.248.170.11]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP; 28 Apr 2010 10:50:40 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id D1D4D7F51; Wed, 28 Apr 2010 10:50:40 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <4BD7DFF8.50009@gmx.at> (martin rudalics's message of "Wed, 28 Apr 2010 09:12:56 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:124296 Archived-At: > That's more or less what I proposed earlier: All I need for the current, > tiling window-manager based on window-trees is the type of the split > (horizontal or vertical) and the fraction occupied by a window wrt to > its parent window. This implies, however, that an overlapping manager > processing such a structure must be able to understand window trees. I think we should not pay attention to overlapping-windows for the format. If we ever add overlapping-windows, it'll be very easy then to add backward-compatibility support for the tree format. So a simple tree with direction+fraction will work just fine. Stefan