From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Rupert" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: questions about columns Date: 12 Jan 2007 02:55:33 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1168599333.255936.154020@q2g2000cwa.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 1168602055 14701 80.91.229.12 (12 Jan 2007 11:40:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 11:40:55 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 12 12:40:53 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 1H5Km5-0003UU-IE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Jan 2007 12:40:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H5Km5-0007fO-7q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Jan 2007 06:40:45 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!q2g2000cwa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 24 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 137.205.236.76 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1168599342 22318 127.0.0.1 (12 Jan 2007 10:55:42 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 10:55:42 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041110 Firefox/1.0,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: q2g2000cwa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=137.205.236.76; posting-account=gzV7zA0AAABSTAJnd6XhxICCG2AoOEvs Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:144651 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:40255 Archived-At: sunwukung@gmail.com wrote: > 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? I'm not sure whether the current replies are enough for you or not, so here's my comments. Many emacs commands can logically be repeated a number of times, such as forward-char or maybe self-insert (which types a character). Others need a number to do something with (such as set-fill-columns, which needs to know what width to set fill-columns to). To pass a prefix argument to such a function, either type C-u or ESC and then type the number (on the number keys!) then do the shortcut to the function or M-x function-name. So for example, you might type: C-u 6 0 C-x f Just in case it helps, you'll then need to wrap the text - try M-q on a paragraph. Rupert