Is it possible to uniquely identify a window in Emacs?
There is window-number-mode but the generated IDs change when one adds a new window to the frame.
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You’ll want to read up on windows in the Elisp manual. The windows can be identified by the objects returned by functions such as
selected-window,next-window,get-buffer-window, etc…