RE: How to use set-fill-column as a hook?

["Bingham, Jay" <Jay.Bingham@hp.com>]

In my .emacs I have:
(setq-default fill-column 75)
followed by:
(add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'turn-on-auto-fill)

When I evaluated
(add-hook 'latex-mode-hook (lambda () (setq fill-column 100)))
in the scratch buffer then created a temporary buffer and switched to
latex mode I had no problems the fill column was set to 100.
You may be right about latex mode running text mode hooks.  If that is
the case then I would recommend setting the default fill-column to the
value you want for text-mode and adding hooks for the modes that you
want to have a different value.

Good luck
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-----Original Message-----
From: Adam [mailto:a24061@void.yahoo.void.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 6:43 AM
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: RE: How to use set-fill-column as a hook?

On Tuesday 10 December 2002 15:42, Bingham, Jay wrote:

> Try this, it worked for me.
> 
> (add-hook 'latex-mode-hook (lambda () (setq fill-column 100)))
> 
> Any mode that has a mode hook, all that I have seen do, can be set in
a
> similar manner.  Just specify the appropriate mode hook and the value
> that you want the fill-column to be for the mode.
> Individual mode customizations have to be done with a mode hook
because
> the variable fill-column becomes buffer local when it is set in any
> manner.  Since the since the mode hooks get executed each time the
mode
> in invoked, i.e. each time a buffer is created in that mode or you
> change a buffer to that mode.

I've tried it but I also have 
(add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'turn-on-auto-fill)
in ~/.emacs, and the value of fill-column inherited from text-mode is 
overriding the value I'm trying to set for latex-mode. (I think that 
latex-mode is running its own hooks _then_ the text-mode hooks.) I'd
really 
like to set them differently.

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