From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#29279: Sharing the margins Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 17:51:08 +0200 Message-ID: <83zi7okger.fsf@gnu.org> References: <0a54e927-cab1-1f1d-4996-85bb36949a33@yandex.ru> <83375imbaa.fsf@gnu.org> <5A0ABD5C.1050109@gmx.at> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1510674738 5650 195.159.176.226 (14 Nov 2017 15:52:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 15:52:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 29279@debbugs.gnu.org, dgutov@yandex.ru To: martin rudalics Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 14 16:52:14 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eEdVR-0000zc-RG for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Nov 2017 16:52:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60457 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eEdVZ-00011k-6O for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Nov 2017 10:52:17 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46244) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eEdVQ-00011X-Ma for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Nov 2017 10:52:09 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eEdVL-0003fE-VD for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Nov 2017 10:52:08 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:59907) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eEdVL-0003f6-RZ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Nov 2017 10:52:03 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eEdVK-000220-3d for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Nov 2017 10:52:03 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 15:52:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 29279 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 29279-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B29279.15106746757739 (code B ref 29279); Tue, 14 Nov 2017 15:52:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 29279) by debbugs.gnu.org; 14 Nov 2017 15:51:15 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40352 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eEdUX-00020j-9F for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 14 Nov 2017 10:51:15 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:54848) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eEdUT-00020U-J1 for 29279@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 14 Nov 2017 10:51:09 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eEdUI-0002tv-No for 29279@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 14 Nov 2017 10:51:04 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:33446) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eEdUI-0002tp-JU; Tue, 14 Nov 2017 10:50:58 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3460 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1eEdUH-0008DS-WA; Tue, 14 Nov 2017 10:50:58 -0500 In-reply-to: <5A0ABD5C.1050109@gmx.at> (message from martin rudalics on Tue, 14 Nov 2017 10:54:36 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:139887 Archived-At: > Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 10:54:36 +0100 > From: martin rudalics > CC: 29279@debbugs.gnu.org > > > ORDINAL is the optional ordinal number of the requested area, counted > > from left to right. Negative ordinal numbers count from right to > > left. > > I'd prefer ORDINAL represent an integer such that 0 means to put it in > the middle of that margin, a negative value farther to the left and a > positive value farther to the right with clashes decided in some > unspecified way. This would make it hard to request to be the leftmost or rightmost column, I think. > I tried a similar thing with side windows. The idea is that a > "don't care where to put it" application has a neutral choice > against others which explicitly want to display their elements left- > or rightmost. I think this should be possible by a simple transformation of the original argument. > BTW is ‘window-margin-modify’ just for the sake of the line numbers > codes or which other users would it have? Any package whose requirement of the margin width is not constant, but has to change due to some event. Even visual-fill-column should need it, I think.