From: Jeff Clough <jeff@chaosphere.com>
To: Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Comments always aligned at column 67 despite comment-column set otherwise
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 17:31:45 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3pr2uiv26.fsf@logrus.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <28000835.post@talk.nabble.com> (eric powell's message of "Tue, 23 Mar 2010 06:34:56 -0700 (PDT)")
eric_powell <epowell1@med.miami.edu> writes:
> All I would like to be able to do is set the comment column and then when I
> press M-;, for a comment to appear at that column. I am trying to do this
> by setting the variable set-comment-column. Seems simple enough, but no
> matter where I set this value, the comment always appears at column 67.
The variable is actually named "comment-column". You can test and/or
play around with it by doing a M-: and typing
(setq comment-column n)
Where n is the column number. It should make M-; work as expected.
Once you find a number that works for you, you'll probably need to use
customize in order to make it permanent (it's buffer local). You can
most easily do that by doing describe-variable on comment-column with
C-h v, then clicking the "customize" link near the bottom of the help.
> Furthermore, the M-; command is supposed to also realign existing comments,
> but in that case, it moves the comments to a completely different column
> (neither 67 nor what I set it to).
This also works with comment-column set as I noted above.
> This problem is absolutely driving me crazy. Please someone help.
>
> I am mostly using emacs for c++ code, which I think is using cc-mode with
> the gnu style, but it would be nice if I could configure this behavior also
> for perl and bash code.
It should.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-23 21:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-23 13:34 Comments always aligned at column 67 despite comment-column set otherwise eric_powell
2010-03-23 21:31 ` Jeff Clough [this message]
2010-03-24 13:08 ` eric_powell
2010-03-24 13:25 ` eric_powell
2010-03-24 13:43 ` Jeff Clough
2010-03-24 13:25 ` Jeff Clough
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