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- From: epstein@cs.uiuc.edu (Milt Epstein)
- Subject: Re: GNU Emacs *global* fill-column?
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- 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
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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).
-
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- Milt Epstein
- Department of Computer Science
- University of Illinois
- epstein@cs.uiuc.edu
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