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24.3.50; doc of `compare-window-configurations'

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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: Josh <josh <at> foxtail.org>, Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 14964 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: RE: bug#14964: 24.3.50; doc of `compare-window-configurations'
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2013 13:33:38 -0700 (PDT)

> https://github.com/tlh/workgroups.el

Yes, it is good to point to that, as another example of readable window
configurations.

You mentioned frame configurations too, but working groups are not,
according to what I read in the doc and see in the code, frame
configurations.  Rather, a workgroup is a set of window configurations
for a single frame.  From the doc:

  Q: What's the difference between a "window configuration", a "wconfig"
     and a "workgroup"?
  A: A "window configuration" is Emacs' opaque internal representation of
     most of the state of one frame. A "wconfig" is Workgroups' independent,
     translucent window configuration object. And a "workgroup" is a named
     set of multiple wconfigs (one base config, and then a working config
     for each frame).

So yes, this could inform what we do wrt Emacs window configurations.

It is also an example of the kinds of things that a library or a user
might want to do with persistent window configurations.  And it is another
argument for having a standard, transparent, readable window-configuration
structure (whatever form the implementation might take).

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