Re: Window splitting issues with margins

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2015 15:53:54 +0100
> From: martin rudalics <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
>  > I thought
>  > the original problem was with splitting a wide window in which the
>  > margins were set to a large size in order to keep the body text at a
>  > smaller width.  I'm asking whether we could pass this information to
>  > the code which splits the window, so that its decisions would take
>  > that information into consideration.
> 
> This would have to be done in ‘split-window’ then.  More precisely it
> would have to be done in the function ‘window--sanitize-window-sizes’
> which tries to make sure that all windows have reasonable sizes
> according to the sizes of their margins, fringes, ...

Something like that, yes.

> Note one aspect though: When you shrink margins while splitting or
> shrinking windows you usually won't get back their old size after
> deleting the other or enlarging this window.  That's why I think that
> it's much easier when packages manage their preferred size of margins in
> ‘window-size-change-functions’ and ‘window-configuration-change-hook’.

Yes, that would perhaps be preferable.

Is there any reason why dark-room mode couldn't do that?