Vimrc: winminwidth "E36 Not enough room" error

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I’m having problems setting a ‘dynamic’ window width in my .vimrc. Doing this for winheight works just fine (thanks to the Thoughtbot Art of Vim video for the starting point). Here’s the code:

" dynamic current window sizing from TBot Art of Vim
set winheight=9
set winminheight=9
let &winheight = &lines - 9
set winwidth=40
set winminwidth=40       " E36 Not enough room here
let &winwidth = &columns - 40

The winheight settings work just great; but the winwidth settings get the error.

However, it all works once I’m in vim; I usually have 3-7 related windows open in a single tab and the dynamic resizing means I always have lots of space horizontally and vertically to work in.

UPDATE
I learned that I can avoid the error message by pre-pending :silent! in front of the command. Cool

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Love that you update your questions when you find solutions.

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Also: that is an awesome fix for that annoying error. I had no idea you could use silent in cases like setting buffer parameters.

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This is great, I’ve been fighting with this little annoyance for months now, super happy to get it cleared up!