From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
To: Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm>
Cc: 44483@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#44483: 27.1.50; Window parameter `min-margins' doesn't split window in half
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2020 09:31:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d9dd4e28-b103-297e-1dc4-548985889668@gmx.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pn4nevws.fsf@fastmail.fm>
> AFAIR, the first time I heard about the `min-margins' parameter was when I
> looked at the release notes of Emacs 25 after it came out. I don't remember why
> I didn't try it out immediately, but after that, I probably forgot about it,
> until a bug report I got a week ago.
>
> Paul Rankin did add `min-margins' to his `olivetti' package, but he didn't
> remove the pre-25 workaround that uses the `split-window' window parameter, so
> the problem probably never showed up.
You're right. It was Paul, who said that he didn't need 'min-margins'
and never reported whether they worked at all. Sorry for the confusion
but I lost my recordings of past conversations.
>> In Emacs 28 I intend to remove sanity checks entirely and always
>> auto-shrink margins when they don't fit into a window any more. Windows
>> will also have a configurable minimum body width so the behavior seen
>> now where the entire buffer text disappears can be easily avoided.
>
> OK, so yet another way of doing things. :-) Sounds like it would make my life a
> little easier, though.
It's pretty hard to accommodate all expectations here. Consider a user
who wants line numbers to remain visible even if everything else has
disappeared after a window has shrunk: With line numbers displayed in
margins, margins should prevail. With display-line-numbers, buffer text
should prevail. A minimum body width will help users to make that
decision. Yet users still have to interfere "manually" in order to
communicate their intentions to Emacs.
> Feel free to let me know when you implement it. I don't normally follow
> development that closely, but in this case I'd be interested to test the new way
> of doing things before the official release.
I'll send you a patch as soon as I consider it stable enough.
martin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-09 8:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-06 14:09 bug#44483: 27.1.50; Window parameter `min-margins' doesn't split window in half Joost Kremers
2020-11-06 14:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-06 16:25 ` Joost Kremers
2020-11-06 18:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-06 18:12 ` martin rudalics
2020-11-06 20:36 ` Joost Kremers
2020-11-07 9:00 ` martin rudalics
2020-11-08 15:00 ` Joost Kremers
2020-11-09 8:31 ` martin rudalics [this message]
2021-10-11 12:35 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-11 17:18 ` martin rudalics
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