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From: Thorsten Bonow <thorsten.bonow@post.rwth-aachen.de>
Subject: Re: resize text
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 18:16:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86wu048h6v.fsf@post.rwth-aachen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: cfg41s$dro$1@news.tiscali.fr

>>>>> "Laurent" == Laurent Herve <laurent.herve23@libertysurf.fr> writes:

    Laurent> Hi, I want to paste some text in emacs or xemacs and that text
    Laurent> should then be shaped to 70 crts/column, how can i do that ?

    Laurent> Thx,

    Laurent> laurent

You can set the variable `fill-column' to 70 (this is always done buffer-local),
e.g. via

     M-x set-variable fill-column: 70

Mark the region of inserted text in your buffer and then call `fill-region'.

Toto



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2004-08-12 15:57 resize text Laurent Herve
2004-08-12 16:16 ` Thorsten Bonow [this message]

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