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bug#37213: Execute set-window-margins. left-margin-width remains 0.
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martin rudalics |
Subject: |
bug#37213: Execute set-window-margins. left-margin-width remains 0. |
Date: |
Sun, 1 Sep 2019 10:26:35 +0200 |
> Is the read value well-defined? Never having set it, the value it has
> seems always to be 0.
All margin-related values are zero by default.
> But even if it is well-defined, is it useful for
> anything?
To keep you informed about the sizes of the margins of a window
whenever the buffer will be shown in it via 'set-window-buffer'.
> Yes, that's the thing. We don't have "window local variables" in Emacs,
> so anything specific to a window needs a function interface with the
> window being one of the parameters.
Right. Windows behave like frames in this regard.
> I've proposed a simple amendment to the "Display Margins" page of the
> elisp manual, saying "don't use these variables to ....!". This would
> solve the misunderstanding I experienced earlier.
Hmm... What is the "current width of the left or right margin"?
martin
- bug#37213: Execute set-window-margins. left-margin-width remains 0.,
martin rudalics <=