Confliction with git-gutter

[toyboot4e]

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Update:

In Emacs27.1 git-gutter is not conflicting with olivetti on my computer! You may not need to take care, either!

In short

Olivetti uses margins and it often conflicts with git-gutter. git-gutter-fringe works well in GUI and for terminal I made a hack (gist).

Summary

It happens if git-gutter is loaded. It may be related to #42.

When changes are saved, current window with buffer in olivetti-mode loses distraction-free looking:

The left window lost distraction-free looking while it's in olivetti-mode

Steps to reproduce

1. Start Emacs with git-gutter and olivetti-mode. Also I opened init.el.
2. M-x olivetti-mode RET
3. Change the buffer and save it

init.el for reproduction

Enable use-package:

(progn
    (require 'package)
    (package-initialize)
    (setq package-enable-at-startup nil)
    (setq package-archives
          '(("gnu"   . "http://elpa.gnu.org/packages/")
            ("melpa" . "http://melpa.org/packages/")
            ("org"   . "http://orgmode.org/elpa/"))))

;; Install and enable use-package
(eval-when-compile
    (unless (package-installed-p 'use-package)
        (package-refresh-contents)
        (package-install 'use-package))
    (require 'use-package))

And then the packages:

(use-package olivetti :ensure t)

(use-package git-gutter
    :ensure t
    :config (global-git-gutter-mode +1))

;; I didn't use it, but if you like
;; (use-package evil
;;     :ensure t
;;     :config (evil-mode))

Actions to solve the issue

If it can't be fixed

• I think this is an important problem that worth noting in README.
• I'd like to find some hack to re-enable the distractin-free looking automatically after it's lost. (If I can.. but I'm not sure since I'm not yet faimlar with Emacs)

My attampt to find the hack

I could do one of the follows to re-enable the distraction-free looking:

1. M-: (run-hooks 'write-file-functions) RET
2. Type ESC (or some key) to show which-key in minibuffer

For which-key, I used the following configuration:

(use-package which-key
  :ensure t
  :config
  ;; Show hints immediately
  (setq which-key-idle-delay 0.01)
  (setq which-key-idle-secondary-delay 0.01)
  (setq which-key-popup-type 'minibuffer)
  (which-key-mode))

Thank you

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edit: typo and indentations

[rnkn]

The manipulation of the margins is pretty rudimentary in Emacs, so it's unlikely to ever have multiple modes that set the margins happily coexist. If you're looking for a way to indicate git changes at the side of the window I think a mode that uses the fringe will probably work better.

[toyboot4e]

I tried git-gutter-fringe and it worked pretty well on GUI!

git-gutter didn't work well in terminal, but I found a hack to re-enable it automatically (gist). Thank you!