Alex <agrambot@gmail.com> writes:

> 1. Specifying the pixel width to the left/center/right of the text area.
>    This is helpful (I believe it's necessary if I want it to be robust)
>    when one wants to pad either side of a string with the same number of
>    pixels and the left side uses (:align-to 0).
>
>    I could use (:width (+ left-fringe left-margin)) for the right
>    padding, but this doesn't take into account line-number display, as
>    well as the scroll-bar width (if it's on the left).
>
> 2. Specifying the pixel position relative to the left or right edge of
>    the window. The right edge of the window currently may be the right
>    edge of the right fringe or the scroll bar, depending on what side it
>    is on. Also, just in the case that in the future the
>    fringe/scroll-bar may not be the outermost elements, there should be
>    a way to explicitly specify one of the edges.

Here's a diff that implements both #1 and #2: