Re: window groups

[Miles Bader]

Chong Yidong <address@hidden> writes:
> It seems to me that, in practice, any Elisp application that needs to
> control the window configuration will probably want to control over the
> entire frame.  Otherwise, the resulting windows will likely be too
> small.  WDYT?

Do you have any support for such an assumption?  It seems wrong to me,
simply based on personal experience.

> If so, maybe all that needs to be done, infrastructure wise, is a few
> functions for, e.g., creating window configurations from scratch,
> rather than window groups.

I don't think that's going to work in Emacs (or at least, work well),
because Emacs is not well-behaved like other apps.  Users _will_ do
stuff to mess up your nice arrangement.  Lots of packages go to some
trouble to create nicely layed out windows, but this tends to decay with
time unless you stick strictly to operations that know about it -- and
people don't do that (and shouldn't have to).

I think what's really needed is not just a way to create window
configurations (in fact, that's relatively easy I guess), but a way to
direct the flow of window creation/deletion to _maintain_ desired window
layout constraints.

-Miles

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