From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: martin rudalics Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#37213: Execute set-window-margins. left-margin-width remains 0. 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Sun, 01 Sep 2019 14:19:38 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20190901094844.GB16279@ACM> Content-Language: de-DE X-Provags-ID: V03:K1:CFz09W0nNlns07oqDd7GcSc4tMhikD0APaNAGNGKbIe2Q3010ru Pu7LgvVhjp+IyV4Kx4mAHoGlXAHAiHcA8xkxLQgKbajuk7EAvmLLDTcZOkqc4FeBU3jnNt/ 7RSArz9Sn2gt53VbJSoMtBy76E/6v+umvNzSpc8z9O4njwli7GjzHGF60/0TJEwQWqihD4K kyzjxfQyvr4D5wY0VW8+A== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V03:K0:Ov0fJCxnW8w=:W5YVlb/W+dSLjmuXohmNCO nCqvIeXZ1sRAQFWOfr4aMzt9wrutt4zhuiq4amnxEP3vUJ2Iq3/iLKeP/GbVDrX8Z6wnQOP+Z YszHhpyeWgfWiGEST+T52kSnV9YhtEEYMVLGVQiFevJq1MmbkqzaXbfma6Q8L4NS35C+HXu9G yBRbWYdi1k6vmTfFYFr3WPKr7ZWy5G0X6Zy0H4Zk9OFa9r7a3/iF5qM1Q6SZTuXB0hInFkiHr 4YxB+bXvBo3/mTjJbFWG8f499dGtfi+XpgXXaJtZNf8mThh4DLlTsgNOXHmykFcPNV6i/RIPl CnobFAm0HmpLOgSWH2Gho7KJOrIssfFimrIPQsqTmQZJYnWwEMoCrcC7xI/Zf9dz1ozYdS3DU Hz9ubn4vWqJhNZDSKpu5LdNNwVuikhkznW3FzkUu0yBKMPe7UpkS4iiTxucERO3rJecMjk/Af y2bGTc24nK1313WSoNKq8OMfTMiZ0wBpfIM95oTr929YXxvHF+gSX0JqT8ApsSab7AKHcDl3e vmYHM/Vom3uMdEZT75y5w+e5vcZJOj19MEGpq+1FLWl+OfoTNarYXLtyEfIpdIpg07xo02N+B M1jvtg8jVYBJ7PPT2jk1TkPncDErrqUj1g3/uQHT6L+7/9CRd5W3wgVu5xtdNNtudZ3xVjWLG qt2n8YstFC2GnJudGyPy9fv1/jpEPz8QLHYaY8c+3Zcky7xTjcKVDzH0E0RJsedk8oF6r6hgX 4H6r5D7OOB4DIJl0O+eX+se/YYPqFsn8wR4QnM/31rjorZoHONiu707QZNRVywCAIediLx4n 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:166133 Archived-At: > OK. It seems there are two alternative strategies for manipulating a > window's margins. One is to use set-window-margins together with > window-margins, the other is to use left/right-margin-width and > set-window-buffer. Right. With fringes and scroll bars you can additionally set a frame parameter. I know that you're not interested in the latter but any descriptions should be consistent. >> Hmm... What is the "current width of the left or right margin"? > > I'm not sure I understand the question. In a given window with a left > margin, there will be a maximum length of string which can be displayed > in that margin. That is its "current width". The same for a right > margin. What are you getting at, here? That you omitted the "In a given window" preamble in the manual. When you have a frame with two windows showing one and the same buffer, the margins of these windows can have different widths. What would be the "current width" in that case? martin