Re: Window configurations

[Juri Linkov]

>> We could use something like this to define window configurations because
>> FRAME is like Emacs window, and FRAMESET is like internal window, e.g.
>>
>> (window-set (rows 30 55 15)
>>   (window-set (cols 75 25)
>>     (window (buffer . "top-window-1"))
> [...]
>> where window-set with rows splits vertically,
>> and window-set with cols splits horizontally.
>
> I suppose we need something more accurate than integer precentages.
>
> And we have to decide how to handle fixed-size windows - they want some
> absolute size.

HTML frame configurations allow percentages, relative and absolute values,
e.g. rows="30%,400,*,2*".  We could support the same specification
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/present/frames.html with a list like
(rows 0.3 400 '* '(* 2))

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