Re: compilation-goto-locus, pop-up-windows, same-window-regexps

[Richard Stallman]

    >     I used to think that C-x r w 1 (store window config in register) was
    >     the way to get back easily to complex window configurations, but it
    >     turned out to not work.  For one, it remembered buffer positions,
    >
    > Perhaps we should add a way of restoring a window configuration
    > that does not restore the positions.

    I don't think that is enough, because when I want a "Gnus" window,
    that window might hold the group buffer, the summary buffer, an
    article, or a new message I am writing.

I don't see precisely how that relates to the issue; could you spell
out the connection?