Re: Adding olivetti to GNU ELPA

[Paul W. Rankin]

On Wed, May 22 2019, martin rudalics wrote:
> OK.  Then I'm afraid you have to do the following: Whenever 
> olivetti
> mode is active in at least _one_ live window on a frame you have 
> to
> use 'olivetti-split-window' on _all_ internal windows of that 
> frame
> too.  You can use 'walk-window-tree' for setting and resetting 
> this
> parameter and the margins of all olivetti mode windows.  It 
> should not
> be too much of a hassle (and tell me immediately when you 
> encounter
> any problems).
>
> The reason is that 'split-window' may be called for internal 
> windows
> too.  For example, if you want to make a new window on the left 
> or
> right side of a frame, Emacs may want to split the root window 
> of that
> frame.  In this case it will check the sizes of all live 
> subwindows of
> the root window and if any of these windows has too large 
> margins, the
> split may fail because of insufficient space for the new window.

Ah awesome. Thanks Martin, I think this well end up solving the 
funny little peculiarities I've encountered, and also the problem 
I had with adding a side-window to a frame containing 2 x olivetti 
windows split horizontally (failing due to insufficient space).

I appreciate your insights.