Re: moving window handling into lisp

[Lennart Borgman]

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 3:23 PM, martin rudalics<address@hidden> wrote:
>> I expect display-buffer to always to something useful. But I do not
>> expect that a saved window tree can always be put back (with all
>> windows there) in any window (ie if the size of the window is too
>> small).
>
> What do you expect it to do when restoring a saved session?  IMHO it
> should fail gracefully by trying to restore as much as possible.


Yes, it is difficult. But I found I wonder if restoring as much as
possible is the best strategy.

First, it is hard to define what it should mean. Second, if it instead
fail without restoring anything you can take actions like enlarging
the target window/frame and try again.