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From: Dale Snell <ddsnell@frontier.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Need "xemacs/init.el" => "emacs/init.el" help
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 17:43:15 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160121174315.371aae0e@zothique.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87egdal8jh.fsf@debian.uxu>

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On Fri, 22 Jan 2016 02:14:42 +0100, in message
87egdal8jh.fsf@debian.uxu, Emanuel Berg wrote:

> Try this single line in a file ~/fill-column.el:
> 
>     (setq-default fill-column 15)
> 
> (It is set to a ridiculous low just to see if
> it works.)
> 
> Now invoke Emacs like this:
> 
>     $ emacs -Q -l ~/fill-column.el
> 
> Now fill the *scratch* message with M-q. To me it gets
> very thin: 15 chars.

Thanks, Emmanuel, that worked just fine.  I also tried changing
the setq-default in my init file to plain setq, and everything
worked fine.  Now I have to go through my init file and fix any
misused setq-defaults.  *sigh*  (My goal in using the hook was to
keep the fill-column limited to those modes derived from
text-mode.  I.e., I didn't want it to affect fundamental-mode.)

All these years of using Emacs, and I'm still pretty much a tyro
at Elisp.  Ah well, I learn.  Slowly, maybe, but I learn.


--Dale

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-22  1:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-21 19:44 Need "xemacs/init.el" => "emacs/init.el" help Tom Browder
2016-01-21 21:45 ` Dale Snell
2016-01-21 21:49   ` Emanuel Berg
2016-01-21 22:14     ` Dale Snell
2016-01-21 22:29       ` Tom Browder
2016-01-22 23:21         ` Tom Browder
2016-01-22  1:14       ` Emanuel Berg
2016-01-22  1:43         ` Dale Snell [this message]
2016-01-21 21:46 ` Emanuel Berg
2016-01-22  7:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-22 23:25   ` Tom Browder

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