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bug#37213: Execute set-window-margins. left-margin-width remains 0.
From: |
Alan Mackenzie |
Subject: |
bug#37213: Execute set-window-margins. left-margin-width remains 0. |
Date: |
Sun, 1 Sep 2019 09:48:45 +0000 |
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Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) |
Hello, Martin.
On Sun, Sep 01, 2019 at 10:26:35 +0200, martin rudalics wrote:
> > Is the read value well-defined? Never having set it, the value it has
> > seems always to be 0.
> All margin-related values are zero by default.
> > But even if it is well-defined, is it useful for
> > anything?
> To keep you informed about the sizes of the margins of a window
> whenever the buffer will be shown in it via 'set-window-buffer'.
OK. It seems there are two alternative strategies for manipulating a
window's margins. One is to use set-window-margins together with
window-margins, the other is to use left/right-margin-width and
set-window-buffer.
> > Yes, that's the thing. We don't have "window local variables" in Emacs,
> > so anything specific to a window needs a function interface with the
> > window being one of the parameters.
> Right. Windows behave like frames in this regard.
> > I've proposed a simple amendment to the "Display Margins" page of the
> > elisp manual, saying "don't use these variables to ....!". This would
> > solve the misunderstanding I experienced earlier.
> Hmm... What is the "current width of the left or right margin"?
I'm not sure I understand the question. In a given window with a left
margin, there will be a maximum length of string which can be displayed
in that margin. That is its "current width". The same for a right
margin. What are you getting at, here?
> martin
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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).