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Execute set-window-margins. left-margin-width remains 0.

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From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 37213 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
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

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