Re: MY window tree!

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Juanma Barranquero wrote:
> > From your package:
>
> ;; Juanma Barranquero has pointed out there is a serious limitation in
> ;; this way of doing it when overlays with 'window properties are
> ;; used. The problem is that any pointers to windows are made invalid
> ;; since they are deleted. So in fact any code that relies on saved
> ;; pointers to windows will have problem if the window is one of those
> ;; that are involved here.
>
> I was talking of modes that maintain a list of *overlays*, not
> windows, but this other point, though not mine, is also valid :)


But overlays are bound to buffers AFAIK. I can not see there are any 
problems with buffers here. Or am I missing something?

Is not the only binding from overlays to windows the 'window property 
that can be set for some overlays.


> All in all, I think all this is complicated stuff for something that
> would perhaps be easier at the C level, without the need to delete and
> recreate windows.


I am not sure if it is very easy at the C level, but it would be good to 
have primitives for handling cases like this there.