From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "haws" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: questions about columns Date: 11 Jan 2007 11:08:48 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1168542528.258801.24080@i56g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> References: <1168541654.686269.286790@i56g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1168544472 4335 80.91.229.12 (11 Jan 2007 19:41:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 19:41:12 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 11 20:41:09 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1H55nL-0003Fr-Qi for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Jan 2007 20:41:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H55nL-0003eq-M6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Jan 2007 14:41:03 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!i56g2000hsf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: comp.emacs,gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 44 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 201.21.235.16 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1168542530 22126 127.0.0.1 (11 Jan 2007 19:08:50 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 19:08:50 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <1168541654.686269.286790@i56g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; pt-BR; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) X-HTTP-Via: 1.1 fw.datacom-telematica.com.br:3128 (squid/2.5.STABLE6) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: i56g2000hsf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=201.21.235.16; posting-account=pG57fA0AAADtQ-4h1MyvjXjZpSNZC0zj Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu comp.emacs:93605 gnu.emacs.help:144642 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:40246 Archived-At: I can answer the first one: You have to pass the argument before calling the function, like this: Type C-8 C-0 C-u Then, as soon as you type M-x, you will see an 80 preceding it in the minibuffer. That will be the argument to the function you want to call. (Btw, you can use numeric arguments for a lot of commands. For example, try typing C-5 C-n to go not 1, but 5 lines down) Another good tip if you're a beginner is the key sequence C-h k, followed by any other key sequence. This will describe what that keybindings does. For example, if I type C-h k C-u, I'll get: C-u runs the command universal-argument [...] Begin a numeric argument for the following command. -- Hope you could understand me! Hugo sunwukung@gmail.com escreveu: > I need to make the text version of my resume slim so it can fit into > online forms and look nice. I tried M-x set-fill-prefix which seems to > work but M-x set-fill-column gives me the error: > set-fill-column requires an explicit argument > but doesn't give me a chance to set it. How do I? > > Also, is there a way from within emacs to do something like the "pr" > command (formats text into columns of a given width and page length)? > In other words, can emacs massage text into a newspaper-like format? > > I'm using version: > XEmacs 21.4 (patch 19) "Constant Variable" [Lucid] (i486-linux-gnu, > Mule) of Fri Nov 3 2006 on penell > > Thanks!