I've recently been playing around with Koutliner and got stuck on a seemingly minor issue.
Koutliner opens a new file (both .kotl and .org) with the cursor (and first cell) butting right up at the top left of the frame/window/buffer boundary. Not sure if images can be embedded here so here's a link to screenshot to illustrate: https://ibb.co/jPSG5mMg I don't like this; it 'feels' claustrophobic to me. Usually I can hit return a few times to get a top margin I like, but I can't seem to do that here; the `1.` stays firmly in place. So, because I'm a newbie at Emacs/Hyperbole, these small things become deep rabbit holes. Is this a Hyperbole issue? The manual doesn't seem to mention it. Is it Emacs? How come Org/scratch/fundamental/text/etc. don't impose this immovable top margin thing on me? etc. An aside: Deleting (variously: C-x C-k; Kout menu 'Edit->Kill-Tree') the starting '1.'/first cell results in: if: (kotl-mode:delete-char): Beginning of cell [13 times] > if: (kcell-view:to-label-end): In cell at pos 55, can’t find beginning of > cell [2 times] > Error in pre-command-hook (kotl-mode:pre-self-insert-command): (error > "(kcell-view:to-label-end): In cell at pos 55, can’t find beginning of > cell") and the file doesn't seem recoverable after that; attempting to edit leads to: setq: Args out of range: 51, 51 [2 times] > Error in pre-command-hook (kotl-mode:pre-self-insert-command): > (args-out-of-range 51 51) --- Ways I attempted to modify the top margin that don't work (in addition to the above): - HyControl: > (defvar hycontrol-screen-offset-alist > '(((3456 . 2234) . (100 100 100 100)) ; 24" iMac HD display > (t . (100 100 100 100)))) [although not at all sure I'm using HyControl appropriately/correctly; *hycontrol-get-screen-offsets* shows "Screen pixel offsets are: Left: 0; Top: 0; Right: 0; Bot: 0" after reloading Emacs with the defvar in init.el.] Countless fruitless hours of almost, but not quite understanding - https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Basic-Windows.html - https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Frame-Layout.html and the like, and it finally sank in that is this an Emacs issue; I then tried, lazily, to effect a quick change with: - the TopSpace package: https://github.com/trevorpogue/topspace - the Spacious Padding pkg: https://git.sr.ht/~protesilaos/spacious-padding - Org-Modern (in an .org Koutline): https://github.com/minad/org-modern to no avail. *tl;dr:* this lonely SE thread <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12632399/how-to-get-top-and-bottom-margins-in-emacs/12632805#12632805>finally solved it: (*set-frame-parameter nil 'internal-border-width* 25) Note this changes all the border-widths around the 'box'. So Godspeed any current or future Hyperbole-travellers who may need this, and may all your Koutlines breathe freely. Best, C. Mayo PS - this email led me to the creation of my first (explicit) button! Since I belatedly discovered I'd need to send it via Gnus (a project for another day), I'll just include the link. But that was fun. Buttons are fun! Now I want to figure out how to incorporate them into the hateful Org-Agenda, which is my nemesis. Have a great weekend, y'all! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj_rvLVpqg8
