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Article #3958Re: Emacs question
From: Kai Grossjohann
Date: Mon, 08 Dec 1997 00:00
Date: Mon, 08 Dec 1997 00:00
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>>>>> On 8 Dec 1997, Ilya said:
Ilya> I ran into a strange problem I can not fix. the left-margin
Ilya> variable in my emacs does not work no matter what I set it to.
Ilya> I do M-x set-variable left-margin 1 and it does not recognize
Ilya> it. Putting (setq-default left-margin 1) in the .emacs file
Ilya> does not do anything either.
I just tried this with Emacs 20.2. 19.22 is *really* old. I don't
have that version, so I can't reproduce this. I suggest that you
upgrade and try again. Emacs 20.2 has a nifty user-friendly
configuration utility which means that you don't have to learn Lisp to
be able to configure Emacs.
Ilya> GNU Emacs 19.22.1 of Thu Apr 28 1994 on use.usit.net (usg-unix-v)
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f8c9b,5a08311a7e5352a3 X-Google-Attributes: gidf8c9b,public X-Google-Thread: 102b9a,5a08311a7e5352a3 X-Google-Attributes: gid102b9a,public X-Google-Thread: 103b8b,5a08311a7e5352a3 X-Google-Attributes: gid103b8b,public X-Google-Thread: 107393,5a08311a7e5352a3 X-Google-Attributes: gid107393,public From: Kai Grossjohann <grossjohann@ls6.cs.uni-dortmund.de> Subject: Re: Emacs question Date: 1997/12/08 Message-ID: <vafra7odw1k.fsf@petty.ls6.uni-do> X-Deja-AN: 296230606 Distribution: inet Sender: grossjoh@petty.ls6.uni-do References: <66fvol$k10$1@news.usit.net> Organization: University of Dortmund, Germany Newsgroups: comp.editors,comp.emacs,gnu.emacs.help,comp.unix.questions