Subject: Re: bug#33871: 27.0.50; Revert Dired window saved in window configuration

From: martin rudalics <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2024 10:41:08 +0100

> This was meant to denote a context inside a window.
 > Then maybe a better prefix would be 'window-point-context'?

Do we want to restrict this to 'point'? What about start or end
positions?

 >> IIUC the context is stored but not the function to restore the position
 >> from the context.
 >
 > Indeed, there was an idea to store a function that restores point, but
 > this might be problematic when saving such a function to the desktop file.

How comes?

 > Therefore, the patch has two separate functions to save and restore context
 > as mere strings and numbers.

 >>> And when the buffer is killed, there is no need
 >>> to restore a context in the killed buffer.
 >>
 >> If you don't intend to restore the context from the file the buffer was
 >> visiting.  Are you sure you don't want to do that?
 >
 > After the buffer was killed?  This doesn't seems necessary.

Then why did we provide a facility to restore the point and start of a
window via 'window-restore-killed-buffer-windows'?

martin