Re: Window configurations

[martin rudalics]

> One aspect of the layout configuration is that windows have names, that
> could evolve to a sort of convention.  Say, any configuration has to
> provide some standard names, then packages/features could choose to
> show their stuff in e.g. "edit-area", "sidebar", "tools-window", "top-pane"
> (instead of just in "this" or "other" as currently).

That's what `display-buffer-function' is for.  If a buffer is in some
way special wrt a specific package, that package has to take care of
displaying it in an appropriate way.

martin