Re: Infrastructural complexity.

[Lennart Borgman]

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:32 AM, martin rudalics<address@hidden> wrote:
>>> As I said before, I have code for that in winsav.el. It needs a bit
>>> better integration with desktop.el currently, but it works.
>>
>> BTW, do you now have a fix to the problem of breaking the 'window
>> property of overlays when restoring windows?
>
> There's no easy fix for that unless you scan all overlays in all live
> buffers to check whether they have a 'window property.  More than 99% of
> overlays do not have a 'window property so this introduces considerable
> overhead with hardly any benefits.

I believe saving them this way does not make sense. It kind of assume
that the user has created them which we know nothing about.

I think it is better to think of them just as font-lock faces. We do
not save that, it is recreated autmoatically (if we recreate the
state).