Re: include new package wconf.el in GNU ELPA

[martin rudalics]

> Yes, pretty much that.  I don't have a real concept of a window other
> than a container for a buffer so I can't tell if a window W1 in window
> configuration WC1 is different to a window W2 in window configuration
> WC2.  All I want is that when switching from WC1 to WC2, all buffers
> which are displayed by some window in both WC1 and WC2 keep their window
> point values from WC1.
>
> Of course, there are corner cases like some buffer being displayed in
> multiple windows in WC1 and/or WC2 which I haven't thought about yet.
>
>> I'm afraid that want you want cannot be achieved easily.  In principle
>> we'd have to record for each window the last position of its buffer's
>> `point' at the time the window was selected together with a time
>> stamp.
>
> I think I'm fine with just the windows that are currently visible at the
> point in time where the window config switch happens.
>
>> When restoring the configuration we'd have to, for the selected
>> window, check whether its `point' should be moved to some youngest
>> previously stored position.  What if the window where the last move
>> occurred was deleted before restoring the configuration?
>
> When I deleted it, then I don't care about it.
>
>> What if `point' moved at a time no window showing the buffer was
>> selected?
>
> Then I didn't move myself so that move is not interesting to me.

So your solution is hardly one that generalizes in a suitable way :-(

martin