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Re: Infrastructural complexity.


From: Lennart Borgman
Subject: Re: Infrastructural complexity.
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:24:03 +0200

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Stefan Monnier<address@hidden> wrote:
>>> Not sure what you mean by "I".  Which mode using the `window' property
>>> would need that?
>> "I" means "I", so just my own, private code would be affected.
>
>> However, letting `set-window-configuration' change the identity of
>> windows would obviously break my window groups code (which is based on
>> the invariant identity of internal windows) and my entire window
>> debugging code.
>
> I'd consider such code as "internal", so yes it would probably need to
> be updated.  This said, I don't think set-window-configuration should be
> changed to always create new window identities.  E.g. in the case of
> save-window-excursion, for example, new identities would only be created
> for windows that had been deleted in the mean time.


Maybe we could add an internal window property to be used as fallback
if a window with a certain identity is not found. Save window
configuration could save and restore this property.




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