bug#44483: 27.1.50; Window parameter `min-margins' doesn't split window in half

[Stefan Kangas]

martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at> writes:

>> AFAIR, the first time I heard about the `min-margins' parameter was when I
>> looked at the release notes of Emacs 25 after it came out. I don't remember 
>> why
>> I didn't try it out immediately, but after that, I probably forgot about it,
>> until a bug report I got a week ago.
>>
>> Paul Rankin did add `min-margins' to his `olivetti' package, but he didn't
>> remove the pre-25 workaround that uses the `split-window' window parameter, 
>> so
>> the problem probably never showed up.
>
> You're right.  It was Paul, who said that he didn't need 'min-margins'
> and never reported whether they worked at all.  Sorry for the confusion
> but I lost my recordings of past conversations.
>
>>> In Emacs 28 I intend to remove sanity checks entirely and always
>>> auto-shrink margins when they don't fit into a window any more.  Windows
>>> will also have a configurable minimum body width so the behavior seen
>>> now where the entire buffer text disappears can be easily avoided.
>>
>> OK, so yet another way of doing things. :-) Sounds like it would make my 
>> life a
>> little easier, though.
>
> It's pretty hard to accommodate all expectations here.  Consider a user
> who wants line numbers to remain visible even if everything else has
> disappeared after a window has shrunk: With line numbers displayed in
> margins, margins should prevail.  With display-line-numbers, buffer text
> should prevail.  A minimum body width will help users to make that
> decision.  Yet users still have to interfere "manually" in order to
> communicate their intentions to Emacs.
>
>> Feel free to let me know when you implement it. I don't normally follow
>> development that closely, but in this case I'd be interested to test the new 
>> way
>> of doing things before the official release.
>
> I'll send you a patch as soon as I consider it stable enough.

That was in November last year.  Any news here?