Re: Add function to rotate/transpose all windows

[pranshu sharma]

martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at> writes:

>>>From what I understand, the main problems are happening when destroying
>> and recreating the window arragnment.
>
> Right.
>
>> How about adding a function that
>> toggles or changes the window arrangment non recursivly, which will deal
>> with all the backend details, and the main rotate function can just
>> recursivly call that on all windows.
>
> How would you "deal with all the backend details"?  How would you
> convince Emacs that the windows B and C in the right configuration
> below
>
> - | A | B |       | A |   |
> - |-------|   - > |---| C |
> - |   C   |       | B |   |
>
> are the windows B and C from the left configuration (albeit with
> different parents and sizes)?

I thought you would know.

If it's not possible, then what's wrong with rebuilding the trees from
scratch and clearly documenting that it's being done.  I mean users will
still have to do the same thing manually, which will also destroy change
the window tree.

>
> martin