Re: AW: AW: Fwd: CEDET sync

[Juri Linkov]

> Unfortunatelly i have no time (and probably will not find any time
> in the near-term and medium-term future) to work on the heavy rewritting
> of the layout engine for the sake of eliminating (or at least
> reducing) the bunch of heavy-weighted advices and instead bringing
> forward the emacs- display-engine to be ready for layouting something
> like ECB without the need of advices.  This would be also a good
> example for the conflict between the advantages of merging ECB into
> Emacs and the value uphelding compatibility of Xemacs: Replacing the
> ECB-advices with Emacs-internal mechanisms would in fact either throw
> away the XEmacs-compatibility of ECB or would "cost" an even much more
> complex layout code of ECB as it is currently.

IIUC, the main obstacle is that window configurations currently don't have
a read syntax.  Once this is implemented it would be possible to define
different layouts (with window properties), save/restore them, etc.

>From a recent discussion, I remember that now Emacs has the hash table
read syntax compatible with XEmacs.  Since XEmacs have lots of other
object types, maybe XEmacs already has a read syntax for window
configurations too?  In this case, it would be easier to keep
compatibility with XEmacs in ECB.

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Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/