Subject: bug#37213: closed (Re: bug#37213: Execute set-window-margins. left-margin-width remains 0.)

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2019 14:40:01 +0000

Your bug report

#37213: Execute set-window-margins.  left-margin-width remains 0.

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: bug#37213: Execute set-window-margins. left-margin-width remains 0.
From: Alan Mackenzie <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2019 14:39:13 +0000
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Bug fixed by enhancing the documentation (elisp manual).

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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

Subject: Execute set-window-margins. left-margin-width remains 0.
From: Alan Mackenzie <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 18:53:52 +0000
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Hello, Emacs.

In Emacs-27, recent master branch, do:

emacs -Q
M-: (set-window-margins (selected-window) 2) ; This works.
M-: left-margin-width.

The result is that left-margin-width is still at zero, although the
value should be 2.  This is a bug.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).