From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Abishek K Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: about buffer local variables Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 21:23:03 +0530 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <468b6299040815085332e5b3f5@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: Abishek K NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1092663665 10042 80.91.224.253 (16 Aug 2004 13:41:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 13:41:05 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 16 15:40:51 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BwhjG-0007BH-00 for ; Mon, 16 Aug 2004 15:40:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BwhnN-0002S2-9d for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Aug 2004 09:45:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1Bwhmj-0002Ds-C1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Aug 2004 09:44:25 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1Bwhmd-00029j-Nt for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Aug 2004 09:44:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1Bwhmd-00028s-JT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Aug 2004 09:44:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.41.8] (helo=mx20.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1BwhiK-0003xo-9D for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Aug 2004 09:39:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [64.233.170.194] (helo=mproxy.gmail.com) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BwNJn-0002Ak-6l for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Aug 2004 11:53:11 -0400 Original-Received: by mproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 79so54507rnk for ; Sun, 15 Aug 2004 08:53:03 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.38.82.65 with SMTP id f65mr384790rnb; Sun, 15 Aug 2004 08:53:03 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:20132 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:20132 i tried to set the variable fill-column in my .emacs file using (set-fill-column 120) how ever there was no effect and the documentation says that fill-column is buffer local. and so, shows a global value of the default 70. how do i change this? i'd like to make fill-column globally 120. bye abi -- "The truth is out there" -Xfiles ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. -- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)