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From: | Joost Kremers |
Subject: | bug#29279: Sharing the margins |
Date: | Sun, 19 Nov 2017 01:47:30 +0100 |
User-agent: | mu4e 1.0-alpha0; emacs 25.3.50.1 |
On Mon, Nov 13 2017, Dmitry Gutov wrote:
On 11/13/17 9:32 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:I imagine workroom-mode might have a idea where they want the padding to end up (to the left or to the right of all columns). So instead ofco-opting the ORDINAL argument to mean "cols will total cols"We need to study the needs of potential users, no doubt, before finalizing the API.Inviting Joost into the discussion.
Apologies for replying so late, I've been quite busy. I must also admit that even though I've been going over the thread, I'm not entirely sure what it is you were hoping to find out by inviting me into the discussion.
My personal itch prompting me to write writeroom-mode was wanting to get rid of any and all on-screen distractions while writing. So I want a full-screen Emacs frame (so none of the window manager's notification areas, panels, task bars etc. are visible) with only a single window displaying the buffer I'm working on, with the text centred on the screen, because modern monitors are too wide to use the entire width when writing texts.
So if I understand correctly what you're talking about, I don't really care whether the margins are padded on the right or the left, because I have nothing in the margins, so I wouldn't be able to tell.
I know from user feedback that people do use writeroom-mode with e.g., (n)linum-mode, or other packages that display stuff in the margins. Among them, some want whatever is being displayed in the margins to be close to the text, while other want it at the edge of the screen.
So, *if* I'm understanding the issue correctly, it would be best if the padding side were user-configurable. If that's not an option, either side will do, because there doesn't seem to be any clear preference either way.
HTH -- Joost Kremers Life has its moments
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