From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Hansen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: changing number of columns. Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 18:11:17 +0200 Organization: disorganized Message-ID: <87fyeglye2.fsf@robotron.kosmorama> References: <1159198710.128188.128340@e3g2000cwe.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1159201527 3394 80.91.229.2 (25 Sep 2006 16:25:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 16:25:27 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 25 18:25:23 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GRtGe-0000yu-Op for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 18:25:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GRtGe-00049O-4h for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 12:25:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GRtGR-000494-Va for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 12:25:04 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GRtGP-00048o-TA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 12:25:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GRtGP-00048l-OL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 12:25:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GRtKr-0004e6-6E for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 12:29:37 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GRtFl-0000iM-Nw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 18:24:23 +0200 Original-Received: from e178034194.adsl.alicedsl.de ([85.178.34.194]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 18:24:21 +0200 Original-Received: from david.hansen by e178034194.adsl.alicedsl.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 18:24:21 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: e178034194.adsl.alicedsl.de Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:lwCPxJY+bTud79KPn15v0RF5WeQ= 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:37622 Archived-At: On 25 Sep 2006 08:38:30 -0700 "DaLoverhino" wrote: > When I do ESC-q, it rearranges text to fill up a width of about 80 > characters. > > How do I change the width of a text page just for that > session? C-u 60 C-x f > Or change the default? (setq-default fill-column 60) > The reason why I ask is lot of these web-based email sites have a > character width of 60 chars or less, which is really annoying, when I > like to compose my emails through emacs, and copy and paste them back > into the web interface. (BTW, does gmail have a 60 char width?) Ugh... Better use a normal SMTP server and some real MUA (there are several available running in emacs). David