Re: Window configuration UI

[Stefan Monnier]

>>> When you switch from workspace A to workspace B, does your current
>>> window configuration get recorded as workspace A?
>>> That is an important aspect of Eclipse perspectives.
>> 
>> Indeed.  Try out my naive attempt at it (see attached) immediately bumps
>> into a significant problem: window-configurations are frame-specific, so
>> I can't create a winconf "test1" in a frame and then use it in
>> another frame.
>> 
>>> needs to be possible to get all the right behavior.  For instance, we
>>> want GUD to be able to take advantage of this, with a predefined "gud"
>>> perspective.  This predefined "gud" perspective should have a window
>> 
>> This is another problem: window-configurations can't be saved&loaded.
>> I.e. the tool we need is not `window-configuration' but some
>> other object.  We can construct it all in Elisp from window-tree, but
>> someone needs to write the code.


> When we last talked about that I wrote the attached file. I have not looked
> at it or used it for a while so I am not sure if everything works right now.

That looks interesting.  I'm wondering about the window-identity
problems: where did they bite?  I.e. what caused you to code up all the
overlay-hacks?

I see there's another problem in the part that saves the data to a file:
we need to use `bookmarks' to save the buffer&position.


        Stefan