From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: changing number of columns. Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 10:21:07 -0600 Organization: IHS Message-ID: References: <1159198710.128188.128340@e3g2000cwe.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1159201428 2968 80.91.229.2 (25 Sep 2006 16:23:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 16:23:48 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 25 18:23:47 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 1GRtEi-0000Kx-64 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 18:23:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GRtEh-0003OE-Jw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 12:23:15 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GRtEX-0003Nx-IV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 12:23:05 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GRtEV-0003NP-IU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 12:23:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GRtEV-0003NL-DN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 12:23:03 -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 1GRtIw-0004G3-US for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 12:27:39 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GRtDz-00008G-EN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 18:22:31 +0200 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.206 ([207.167.42.206]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 18:22:31 +0200 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.206 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 18:22:31 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 32 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.206 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) In-Reply-To: <1159198710.128188.128340@e3g2000cwe.googlegroups.com> 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:37621 Archived-At: 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? Or > change the default? Set fill-column (C-h v): ,----[ C-h k M-q ] | M-q runs the command fill-paragraph | which is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `fill.el'. | It is bound to M-q. | (fill-paragraph arg) | | Fill paragraph at or after point. Prefix arg means justify as well. | If `sentence-end-double-space' is non-nil, then period followed by one | space does not end a sentence, so don't break a line there. | the variable `fill-column' controls the width for filling. | | If `fill-paragraph-function' is non-nil, we call it (passing our | argument to it), and if it returns non-nil, we simply return its value. | | If `fill-paragraph-function' is nil, return the `fill-prefix' used for filling. | | [back] `---- -- Kevin