Re: Infrastructural complexity.

[martin rudalics]

> Like most window managers Emacs should allow the user to create
> persistent window configurations, specify window placement, group windows
> to window layouts, easily change, save and restore window groups with
> window parameters like dedicatedness.
>
> There are already a few packages that partially implement this like
> winner.el (restores old window configurations), winring.el (named
> window configuration rings), escreen.el (emacs window session manager),
> gnus-win.el (window layouts in `gnus-buffer-configuration').

IIUC most of these serve to save and restore earlier constructed window
configurations, though not across sessions (which, I suppose, is what
"persistent" stands for).  But wouldn't ECB implement all the missing
parts?  ISTR that ECB comes with some predefined configurations which is
probably the most important part for beginners.

martin