Re: Setting fill-column and others for text-mode

[Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>]

Decebal wrote:
> On 24 okt, 17:52, Nikolaj Schumacher <m...@nschum.de> wrote:
> \> > I would like to set fill-column, left-margin, tab-width and
> default-
>>> justification for text-mode, but I do not manage to get this working.
>>> How can this be done?
>> You can set them inside a hook like this:
>> (setq fill-column 70)
> 
> It has to be:
>     (setq-default fill-column 72)
> 
> For fill-column and tab-width I thought it better to do it globally.
> 
> I also use:
>     (add-hook 'text-mode-hook (lambda () (refill-mode 1) (setq-default
> default-justification 'full)))
>     (add-hook 'org-mode-hook  (lambda () (refill-mode 0) (setq-default
> default-justification 'left)))
> 
> But this only works partly. Refill-mode is t for text-mode and  nill
> for or-mode, but default-justification is for both full. What is going
> wrong here?

What is going on here is that you explicitly set the global value of
default-justification by using setq-default, which means it affects all
buffers in all modes.  The value that you are seeing depends upon which
hook was run most recently.

> I also tried:
>     (add-hook 'org-mode-hook  (lambda () (refill-mode 0)))
>     (add-hook 'org-mode-hook  (lambda () (setq-default default-
> justification 'left)))
> 
> But with the same result.
> 
> And I would prefer something like:
>     (defun text-justification ()
>       (interactive)
>       (refill-mode 1)
>       (setq-default default-justification 'full)
>       )
> 
>     (defun text-no-justification ()
>       (interactive)
>       (refill-mode 0)
>       (setq-default default-justification 'left)
>       )
> 
>     (add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'text-justification)
>     (add-hook 'org-mode-hook  'text-no-justification)
> 
> Can something like this be done?

Just use normal setq instead of setq-default.

-- 
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA