From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Column width for web pages in eww or w3m Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 14:41:27 +0800 Message-ID: <871sqlah2g.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <87d1a6ipl2.fsf@gmail.com> <87poe5zrq3.fsf@debian.uxu> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1497508980 8410 195.159.176.226 (15 Jun 2017 06:43:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 06:43:00 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 15 08:42:56 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dLOUa-0001yk-Lk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Jun 2017 08:42:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52406 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dLOUf-0001id-Ut for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Jun 2017 02:43:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45663) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dLOU3-0001KI-Vq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Jun 2017 02:42:24 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dLOU0-0000hE-V9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Jun 2017 02:42:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=41108 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dLOU0-0000h7-OB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Jun 2017 02:42:20 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dLOTt-000833-KV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Jun 2017 08:42:13 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:pBHskaGkwBAZ+/EG5+7x5y/qDfI= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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 Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:113471 Archived-At: Emanuel Berg writes: > Narendra Joshi writes: > >> I use elfeed and Gnus. I would like to be able to >> read articles in Emacs. Most of the articles spread >> across the width of Emacs windows. I would like to >> limit the column upto which text is shown to say 80. >> That would make reading easier for me. I don't like >> having a huge number of words in a single line of >> the buffer. How can I achieve this? > > Try this: > > (setq message-fill-column 54) That would affect message composition buffers, right? I understood the OP to be asking about reading articles, in which case "W Q" might be what the doctor ordered. Eric