From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tassilo Horn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Why didn't setq work here? Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2011 18:29:29 +0100 Message-ID: <87sjx3tibq.fsf@member.fsf.org> References: <87k4ig7pto.fsf@member.fsf.org> <5CEC7500-B383-476F-BD4C-3275BCEBC707@Web.DE> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1294507810 8321 80.91.229.12 (8 Jan 2011 17:30:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2011 17:30:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eric Lilja , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Peter Dyballa Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 08 18:30:03 2011 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 1Pbcc2-00013i-10 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Jan 2011 18:29:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52714 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pbcc1-0007SD-HD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Jan 2011 12:29:57 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=60181 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pbcbe-0007Pt-AL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Jan 2011 12:29:35 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pbcbd-0005mm-4r for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Jan 2011 12:29:34 -0500 Original-Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:40346) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pbcbc-0005mf-Uf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Jan 2011 12:29:33 -0500 Original-Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.42]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA4D2208F4; Sat, 8 Jan 2011 12:29:31 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from frontend2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by compute2.internal (MEProxy); Sat, 08 Jan 2011 12:29:31 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=messagingengine.com; h=from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version:content-type; s=smtpout; bh=Zn0BR0WDPwFksB8qp9y6tD3jJec=; b=t6LUHiCHiM6n40fyo2ccvq2ebI0eorsdgWYRmqUD6datmuujugZ5NXMyVbZfUzmDfbFFWZgI/+Q7Ll6pL+A7/c+mJ+HgVT1pHg/KipcghECr0KiQgnQ/dE22RFcmLBODpuBqf8eXzOLjzNmxMX+jTY8yBrNQ/TO+WwQtGW8SM7U= X-Sasl-enc: v7b4fTf9NiqK9lP+RnndNisqFHYrnT49l3V8G5Ej3c9O 1294507771 Original-Received: from thinkpad (95-88-32-105-dynip.superkabel.de [95.88.32.105]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id BCD2A446A3C; Sat, 8 Jan 2011 12:29:30 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <5CEC7500-B383-476F-BD4C-3275BCEBC707@Web.DE> (Peter Dyballa's message of "Fri, 7 Jan 2011 17:59:19 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:78310 Archived-At: Peter Dyballa writes: >> 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. > > And isn't fill-column also buffer-local, when changed? Yes, it is. Ah, you mean Eric might have checked the value in another buffer, and there he saw the old default value and so thought setq didn't work? That might be. Bye, Tassilo