How many times has this happened to you? You have a poly patcher with a [patcher foo] inside it. You go to edit foo and hit save and all the sudden you're waiting for 400 foo patchers to paint to your screen just to close it all.

[poly foo @window_limit 4]

no clue how possible this is but it would help.

AND OR

Patcher inspector @dont_open_any_fricken_subpatcher_windows_on_load 1