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Started by Jan Steinman,- Bytesmiths -,Tel ...
Sat, 23 Jan 1993 11:58
GNU Emacs *global* fill-column?
Author: Jan Steinman,- Bytesmiths -,Tel ...
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 11:58
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 11:58
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Sorry if this has been discussed before -- I did look over the FAQ first. Is there something I can put in .emacs to change the default fill-column? I've crawled around the code a bit, but have been unable to find it, so I end up doing something like ^U80^Xf in 95% of the buffers I visit! Yuk! I understand RMS made it 70 so that there would be room for indenting quotes, but very little of what I use emacs for is ever quoted. : : Jan Steinman, Bytesmiths steinman@hasler.ascom.ch : : : : 2002 Parkside Court, West Linn, OR 97068-2767 USA +1 503 657 7703 : : : : Beundenfeldstrasse 35, CH-3013, Bern, Switzerland +41 31 999 3946 : :
Re: GNU Emacs *global* fill-column?
Author: Jim Patterson
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 14:07
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 14:07
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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) -- Jim Patterson Cognos Incorporated Sr Consulting Engineer P.O. BOX 9707 UUNET:jimp@cognos.COM 3755 Riverside Drive PHONE:(613)738-1338 x3385 Ottawa, Ont K1G 3Z4
Re: GNU Emacs *global* fill-column?
Author: 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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