From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#7845: 24.0.50; doc string of `fill-region' Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 23:19:02 -0800 Message-ID: <5CA07E84117447E793865CDE9BE5D890@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1294989880 17285 80.91.229.12 (14 Jan 2011 07:24:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 07:24:40 +0000 (UTC) To: 7845@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 14 08:24:36 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pde1T-0000KK-Cl for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Jan 2011 08:24:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57329 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pde1S-0003aw-N4 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Thu, 13 Jan 2011 23:19:04 -0800 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5994 Thread-Index: Acuzu1Iumtvns56VQ16z7lEAIJlaVQ== X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 02:12:02 -0500 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:43361 Archived-At: "Ordinarily the variable `fill-column' controls the width." What is "ordinarily" - or rather, when does `fill-column' not control the width? Is there some other way to control the width (other than binding or setting `fill-column')? The Emacs manual (node `Fill Commands') seems to confirm that playing with `fill-column' is the (only) way to control the width. In GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2011-01-03 on 3249CTO Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600 configured using `configure --with-gcc (4.4) --no-opt --cflags -Ic:/imagesupport/include'