From: Markus Triska <markus.triska@gmx.at>
Subject: Re: questions about columns
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 20:13:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y7o9qsuj.fsf@gmx.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1168541654.686269.286790@i56g2000hsf.googlegroups.com
"sunwukung@gmail.com" <sunwukung@gmail.com> wrote:
> work but M-x set-fill-column gives me the error: set-fill-column
> requires an explicit argument but doesn't give me a chance to set
> it. How do I?
Use C-u followed by a number to specify a column. Just C-u as
argument means to use the current column.
> Also, is there a way from within emacs to do something like the "pr"
> command (formats text into columns of a given width and page length)?
> In other words, can emacs massage text into a newspaper-like format?
You can run pr on the buffer: C-x h (mark-whole-buffer), then M-|
(shell-command-on-region), then the command (pr) and its parameters.
All the best,
Markus Triska
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-11 19:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-11 18:54 questions about columns sunwukung
2007-01-11 19:08 ` haws
2007-01-11 19:13 ` Markus Triska [this message]
2007-01-11 20:03 ` Kevin Rodgers
[not found] ` <mailman.2975.1168545881.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-01-12 10:55 ` Rupert
2007-01-13 23:44 ` sunwukung
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