Re: window configurations no longer (since 21.5) include windows ! ?

Michael Sperber writes: Yikes! Man, that's evil. Totally counter-intuitive. "We had to destroy the window to save it." All that just to move window-point?!? Mike, this seriously needs rethinking. It's just not reasonable to invalidate window IDs across save-window-excursion under current ways of thinking. I agree that the `(setq outwin (display-buffer outbuf))' idiom is probably going to be available most of the time but it's ugly, and it's not obvious that such idioms will always work. I'm not even sure why it's supposed to work in this case: it seems obscure. I wish our documentation were that good. I also think that in the absence of an explicit disclaimer (eg. `delete-extent''s docstring says "The extent cannot be used thereafter"), a user may reasonably expect that a Lisp object won't spontaneously become meaningless. Anyway, IMO Section 38.3 as quoted is sufficiently explicit. Windows are persistent objects and they can be revived. _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta