Re: Zoom: a window management minor mode -- best practices and questions

[Andrea Cardaci]

> This should work although I suppose (cons track-mouse (window-list))
> would do as well.

It doesn't because keeping just the window object doesn't retain the
visited buffer at the time:

     (setq x (selected-window))
     (switch-to-buffer "foo")
     (setq y (selected-window))
     (equal x y) ; t

So formatting is IMHO a nice workaround to storing also the buffer name.