From: Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why didn't setq work here?
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2011 15:26:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k4ig7pto.fsf@member.fsf.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ig71q8$cii$1@dough.gmane.org
Eric Lilja <mindcooler@gmail.com> writes:
> I have one final question though. fill-column does seem to be a
> variable.
It is.
> It can be described using C-h v and set using M-x
> set-variable. However, if I replace (set-fill-column 76) with (setq
> fill-column 76) the variable value is never changed (and no byte
> compiler warning btw).
I presume, your observation is false. In fact, `set-fill-column' does
nothing except reading its argument and then doing (setq fill-column
arg) itself.
Bye,
Tassilo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-07 14:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-07 2:05 Why didn't setq work here? Eric Lilja
2011-01-07 3:40 ` Deniz Dogan
2011-01-07 12:43 ` Eric Lilja
2011-01-07 14:26 ` Tassilo Horn [this message]
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
[not found] <mailman.23.1294365997.1330.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-01-07 2:54 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2011-01-07 3:50 ` rusi
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