Re: customizing emacs windows

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 13:22:59 +0200
> > From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
> > CC:  help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> >
> > Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > > Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 12:06:41 +0200
> > > > From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
> > > > CC:  help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> > > >
> > > > It looks like winner.el and winsav.el complement each other.
> > > To me it looks like saving the window configuration to a file is a
> > > natural extension of a package that lets you save and restore window
> > > configuration during a single session.
> >
> > Absolutely, from a logical point of view. Maybe also from a code point 
> > of view, but I doubt that a bit in this case. The data structures that 
> > winner.el is using is perhaps not feasable for save/restore, but maybe 
> > you think differently?
>
> Lisp data structures are easily converted into plain text, and then a
> buffer which holds that text can be saved to a disk file.  To restore,
> you need only invoke the Lisp reader on the saved text.  How difficult
> can that be?  There are already quite a few packages that do similar
> things, like saveplace, for example.


That is not exactly what I meant. I meant if the data structures 
contains information that are useful for save/restore.

But I did not look close at it. The data structures in winner.el may be 
that too. I took a look at winner-currents and maybe that contains the 
information needed.

However I do not know if there is a way to save it. It contains the 
information needed in something that looks like #<window-configuration> 
when trying to print it. Is there a way to print this so that it can be 
saved?

BTW, winsav.el has a little bit different focus, solving a problem that 
I could not find a way to solve easily: Injection of a window 
configuration into a window. The ability to save and restore window 
configuration on a frame is just a byproduct.