Re: Infrastructural complexity.

[Lennart Borgman]

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:08 AM, Miles Bader<address@hidden> wrote:
>
> I dunno; I haven't looked at the implementation details.  It doesn't
> sound particularly hard to me, offhand, to have the Emacs code move an
> internal Emacs window structure to another parent frame (preserving any
> pointers/whatever, but changing the frame pointer etc) in this case, but
> I'll have to demur from arguing about it, since I don't have any
> detailed basis on which do so.


This was actually one of the reasons I wrote winsav.el, it does just
that (in elisp). It can put a window tree into a window.

There are some things to think about, like window (re)sizing.


> Since tear-off windows are not very important though, it doesn't really
> matter.  An implementation which creates a new Emacs window inside a new
> frame seems acceptable to me as well.  Or simply not having tear-off
> windows.