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Article #3533Re: GNU Emacs *global* fill-column?
From: Milt Epstein
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 17:32
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 17:32
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In <1993Jan23.140711.24243@cognos.com> jimp@cognos.COM (Jim Patterson) writes: >steinman@hslrswi.hasler.ascom.ch (Jan Steinman,- Bytesmiths -,Tel x3946) writes: >: Is there something I can put in .emacs to change the default fill-column? > >The usual command is set-default, e.g. in your .emacs put > >(set-default 'fill-column 80) Interesting. I was going to reply and say "shouldn't that be setq-default". But then I checked `C-h f set-default' and found there is such a function (I suppose I should've realized it). The difference of course is that with set-default, the symbol being set gets evaluated. So, if you use setq-default, you can get rid of the quote before fill-column, i.e. (setq-default fill-column 80). -- Milt Epstein Department of Computer Science University of Illinois epstein@cs.uiuc.edu
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Newsgroups: comp.emacs Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!usc!sdd.hp.com!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!cs.uiuc.edu!sparc0b!epstein From: epstein@cs.uiuc.edu (Milt Epstein) Subject: Re: GNU Emacs *global* fill-column? Message-ID: <C1BI1x.5w5@cs.uiuc.edu> Sender: news@cs.uiuc.edu Reply-To: epstein@cs.uiuc.edu Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign References: <1993Jan23.115826.23695@hasler.ascom.ch> <1993Jan23.140711.24243@cognos.com> Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 17:32:20 GMT Lines: 21