From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: eric_powell Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Comments always aligned at column 67 despite comment-column set otherwise Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 06:34:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <28000835.post@talk.nabble.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 1269377629 14063 80.91.229.12 (23 Mar 2010 20:53:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:53:49 +0000 (UTC) To: Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 23 21:53:44 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NuB6d-0001eN-Gg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 21:53:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38473 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NuB6d-0003bB-21 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:53:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Nu4GB-00040R-0d for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 09:35:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=45363 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nu4G9-0003zo-LA for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 09:35:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nu4G7-0003Z7-Q1 for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 09:35:05 -0400 Original-Received: from kuber.nabble.com ([216.139.236.158]:56535) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nu4G7-0003YF-MC for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 09:35:03 -0400 Original-Received: from isper.nabble.com ([192.168.236.156]) by kuber.nabble.com with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Nu4G0-0001qJ-SZ for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 06:34:56 -0700 X-Nabble-From: epowell1@med.miami.edu X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:40:46 -0400 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:72463 Archived-At: I am new to emacs and really love the customizability, but on one front I have grown really confused and frustrated. All I would like to be able to do is set the comment column and then when I press M-;, for a comment to appear at that column. I am trying to do this by setting the variable set-comment-column. Seems simple enough, but no matter where I set this value, the comment always appears at column 67. Furthermore, the M-; command is supposed to also realign existing comments, but in that case, it moves the comments to a completely different column (neither 67 nor what I set it to). This problem is absolutely driving me crazy. Please someone help. I am mostly using emacs for c++ code, which I think is using cc-mode with the gnu style, but it would be nice if I could configure this behavior also for perl and bash code. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Comments-always-aligned-at-column-67-despite-comment-column-set-otherwise-tp28000835p28000835.html Sent from the Emacs - Help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.