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: Re: Comments always aligned at column 67 despite comment-column set otherwise Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 06:08:32 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <28014762.post@talk.nabble.com> References: <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 1269436450 27917 80.91.229.12 (24 Mar 2010 13:14:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 13:14:10 +0000 (UTC) To: Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 24 14:14:06 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 1NuQP3-0008WV-M2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Mar 2010 14:14:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47414 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NuQOw-0004uX-O0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Mar 2010 09:13:38 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NuQK8-0003uq-DJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Mar 2010 09:08:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=55385 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NuQK6-0003uG-3p for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Mar 2010 09:08:40 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NuQK1-0001QA-G3 for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Mar 2010 09:08:37 -0400 Original-Received: from kuber.nabble.com ([216.139.236.158]:47388) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NuQK1-0001Pz-Bc for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Mar 2010 09:08:33 -0400 Original-Received: from isper.nabble.com ([192.168.236.156]) by kuber.nabble.com with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1NuQK0-00032Z-8T for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Mar 2010 06:08:32 -0700 In-Reply-To: X-Nabble-From: epowell1@med.miami.edu X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:72472 Archived-At: Thanks for the reply, Jeff. What you suggested is very similar to what I was doing. (I guess I was actually using the set-comment-column command to set the comment-column variable). Nevertheless, the result was the same. I set the comment-column to 77, pressed M-;, and a comment appeared at column 67!?!? (BTW, I pressed M-; on a line with text on it already [e.g. int i = 0; ]). At this point, I am trying to understand what could be overriding the comment-column. I read about a user option called c-indent-comment-alist. I can't seem to access it anymore, but I used to be able to, and I think it could be somehow culpable. Also, I understand that the particular c-style I'm using could be involved. Either way, I can't seem to decipher what these other options may or may not be doing. Does anyone know which options/settings could be over-riding what I have most certainly set as the comment-column? -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Comments-always-aligned-at-column-67-despite-comment-column-set-otherwise-tp28000835p28014762.html Sent from the Emacs - Help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.