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bug#29279: Sharing the margins
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#29279: Sharing the margins |
Date: |
Tue, 14 Nov 2017 17:51:08 +0200 |
> Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 10:54:36 +0100
> From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
> CC: 29279@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> > ORDINAL is the optional ordinal number of the requested area, counted
> > from left to right. Negative ordinal numbers count from right to
> > left.
>
> I'd prefer ORDINAL represent an integer such that 0 means to put it in
> the middle of that margin, a negative value farther to the left and a
> positive value farther to the right with clashes decided in some
> unspecified way.
This would make it hard to request to be the leftmost or rightmost
column, I think.
> I tried a similar thing with side windows. The idea is that a
> "don't care where to put it" application has a neutral choice
> against others which explicitly want to display their elements left-
> or rightmost.
I think this should be possible by a simple transformation of the
original argument.
> BTW is ‘window-margin-modify’ just for the sake of the line numbers
> codes or which other users would it have?
Any package whose requirement of the margin width is not constant, but
has to change due to some event. Even visual-fill-column should need
it, I think.
- bug#29279: Sharing the margins, (continued)
- bug#29279: Sharing the margins, Joost Kremers, 2017/11/18
- bug#29279: Sharing the margins, Dmitry Gutov, 2017/11/19
- bug#29279: Sharing the margins, martin rudalics, 2017/11/14
- bug#29279: Sharing the margins, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/11/14
- bug#29279: Sharing the margins, martin rudalics, 2017/11/15
bug#29279: Sharing the margins, martin rudalics, 2017/11/14