From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#37213: Execute set-window-margins. left-margin-width remains 0. Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 22:14:54 +0300 Message-ID: <83r255ayq9.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20190828185352.GA4530@ACM> Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="147794"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: 37213@debbugs.gnu.org To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 28 22:25:02 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1i34V4-000cI4-Bo for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Aug 2019 22:25:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42300 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1i34V3-0000yP-3V for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Aug 2019 16:25:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:40598) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1i33PK-0004hu-VQ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Aug 2019 15:15:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1i33PK-00053N-0q for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Aug 2019 15:15:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:42412) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1i33PJ-00053H-Tp for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Aug 2019 15:15:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1i33PJ-0005ia-Lp for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Aug 2019 15:15:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 19:15:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 37213 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 37213-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B37213.156701969721954 (code B ref 37213); Wed, 28 Aug 2019 19:15:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 37213) by debbugs.gnu.org; 28 Aug 2019 19:14:57 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51233 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1i33PF-0005i1-EV for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 28 Aug 2019 15:14:57 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:60315) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1i33PD-0005hn-Io for 37213@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 28 Aug 2019 15:14:56 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:54143) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1i33P7-0004xu-KY; Wed, 28 Aug 2019 15:14:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4901 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1i33P6-0008ML-Lz; Wed, 28 Aug 2019 15:14:49 -0400 In-reply-to: <20190828185352.GA4530@ACM> (message from Alan Mackenzie on Wed, 28 Aug 2019 18:53:52 +0000) 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: 209.51.188.43 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:166024 Archived-At: > Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 18:53:52 +0000 > From: Alan Mackenzie > > emacs -Q > M-: (set-window-margins (selected-window) 2) ; This works. > M-: left-margin-width. > > The result is that left-margin-width is still at zero, although the > value should be 2. This is a bug. I don't think this is a bug. This variable is for _setting_ the margin width, not for _returning_ its width as set "by other means". See its documentation.