From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Joost Kremers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#29279: Sharing the margins Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2017 01:47:30 +0100 Message-ID: <87shdbnlgd.fsf@fastmail.fm> References: <0a54e927-cab1-1f1d-4996-85bb36949a33@yandex.ru> <83375imbaa.fsf@gnu.org> <83o9o6kp61.fsf@gnu.org> <83h8tykm99.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1511052491 26663 195.159.176.226 (19 Nov 2017 00:48:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2017 00:48:11 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: mu4e 1.0-alpha0; emacs 25.3.50.1 Cc: 29279@debbugs.gnu.org To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 19 01:48:05 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 1eGDmH-0006Xe-Ch for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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b=rv4jZ+EgHu8E/DbUQkUgGlffkA/IvXtz2eNU3P0oq7NKP gszxhsVAZ2IiIUPaaBC4yaq3FciOmi96R+RreaUJZByvQjFQ7MhO2gNLSdSe2UQN 86rguHu5StcG+uyPR9pg0pxK6rRm4Bc1Rpk9HKwiGRldRT/s0q+mMxsJ8TgvIGqK kV75UHqs+349QF+iAn4njMqL54pzI4oQM1+BObUV7u/fTJmPyGTiCXwd10Ulksgf YkhuFxpGLGW8HN6YsoNuGiLUTnXDDvwxljnSCF06225TifrPNLuZHfTlW40bj2PL 7MNt6UjMT6qo8cgH0zZ1amZtD4pwJ/l1G8lB1IdlQ== X-ME-Sender: Original-Received: from IdeaPad.fastmail.com (ip5f5acb54.dynamic.kabel-deutschland.de [95.90.203.84]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id CF286244A1; Sat, 18 Nov 2017 19:47:32 -0500 (EST) In-reply-to: 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:140073 Archived-At: On Mon, Nov 13 2017, Dmitry Gutov wrote: > On 11/13/17 9:32 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >>> I imagine workroom-mode might have a idea where they want the >>> padding to >>> end up (to the left or to the right of all columns). So >>> instead of >>> co-opting the ORDINAL argument to mean "cols will total cols" >> >> We need to study the needs of potential users, no doubt, before >> finalizing the API. > > Inviting Joost into the discussion. Apologies for replying so late, I've been quite busy. I must also admit that even though I've been going over the thread, I'm not entirely sure what it is you were hoping to find out by inviting me into the discussion. My personal itch prompting me to write writeroom-mode was wanting to get rid of any and all on-screen distractions while writing. So I want a full-screen Emacs frame (so none of the window manager's notification areas, panels, task bars etc. are visible) with only a single window displaying the buffer I'm working on, with the text centred on the screen, because modern monitors are too wide to use the entire width when writing texts. So if I understand correctly what you're talking about, I don't really care whether the margins are padded on the right or the left, because I have nothing in the margins, so I wouldn't be able to tell. I know from user feedback that people do use writeroom-mode with e.g., (n)linum-mode, or other packages that display stuff in the margins. Among them, some want whatever is being displayed in the margins to be close to the text, while other want it at the edge of the screen. So, *if* I'm understanding the issue correctly, it would be best if the padding side were user-configurable. If that's not an option, either side will do, because there doesn't seem to be any clear preference either way. HTH -- Joost Kremers Life has its moments