Re: Infrastructural complexity.

[martin rudalics]

> This can of course be done by just jumping over them. If that is worth
> the effort is another matter.

If you want the display-engine just jump over invisible windows, you
have to discuss that with someone familiar with the display code.

>>> Rotating the visual window structure. Transposing the visual window
>>> structure.
>> These would be possible only within certain well-behaved window
>> configurations.  Hardly something for basic window handling routines.
>
> Are there really any well-behaved window configuration when it comes
> to rezising? Why should it be different when rotating or transposing?

I don't know how you would rotate a configuration like

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and why people should want to do that.  Or do you mean to rotate the
frame by 90 degrees?

I occasionally do flip the contents of two equally sized side-by-side
windows, for example, when diffing revisions.  That's mainly because of
my way of reading things from left to right connotes the idea that
something in a left-hand window is older than something in a window on
the right.  So while I agree that transposing two windows around a
common axis can be interesting, I have no use case for rotating windows.

martin