Re: Window configurations

[Juri Linkov]

>> Definitely not, changing a frame's buffer and buried buffer lists
>> is the only way to implement a sane behavior for the tab-bar!
>> Switching tabs should save the frame's buffer list of the current tab
>> into a variable and update the frame's parameters with the value
>> of frame's buffer list of the next tab.
>
> But why should working from the tab-bar affect these?

They implement tab-local buffer-list by modifying the frame-local
buffer-list after switching the tab.

> Shouldn't such side-effects stay within the framework of the
> tab-bar functions?

The tab-bar functions implemented by Lisp packages use
`modify-frame-parameters' to change `buffer-list' frame parameter.

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