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From: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why didn't setq work here?
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2011 03:54:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ei8pbeyy.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.23.1294365997.1330.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

Eric Lilja <mindcooler@gmail.com> writes:
> But here's my question: Why didn't setq work as I thought it would? By
> not work I meant I the minor mode auto-fill-mode was not turned on and
> even though the fill column was set as I desired, the statement
> produced a warning as I showed above.

I have quite a difficulty in trying to explain you.

Do you know the difference between a variable and a function?

-- 
__Pascal Bourguignon__                     http://www.informatimago.com/
A bad day in () is better than a good day in {}.


       reply	other threads:[~2011-01-07  2:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.23.1294365997.1330.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-01-07  2:54 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon [this message]
2011-01-07  3:50 ` Why didn't setq work here? rusi
2011-01-07  2:05 Eric Lilja
2011-01-07  3:40 ` Deniz Dogan
2011-01-07 12:43   ` Eric Lilja
2011-01-07 14:26     ` Tassilo Horn
2011-01-07 16:05       ` Eric Lilja
2011-01-07 16:59       ` Peter Dyballa
2011-01-08 17:29         ` Tassilo Horn
     [not found]       ` <mailman.6.1294416372.29236.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-01-07 22:50         ` Tim X

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