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27.0.50; Revert Dired window saved in window configuration

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From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: 33871 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#33871: 27.0.50; Revert Dired window saved in window configuration
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

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