From: Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>
To: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>
Cc: Eric Lilja <mindcooler@gmail.com>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why didn't setq work here?
Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2011 18:29:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sjx3tibq.fsf@member.fsf.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5CEC7500-B383-476F-BD4C-3275BCEBC707@Web.DE> (Peter Dyballa's message of "Fri, 7 Jan 2011 17:59:19 +0100")
Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> writes:
>> I presume, your observation is false. In fact, `set-fill-column'
>> does nothing except reading its argument and then doing (setq
>> fill-column arg) itself.
>
> And isn't fill-column also buffer-local, when changed?
Yes, it is. Ah, you mean Eric might have checked the value in another
buffer, and there he saw the old default value and so thought setq
didn't work? That might be.
Bye,
Tassilo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-08 17:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-07 2:05 Why didn't setq work here? Eric Lilja
2011-01-07 3:40 ` Deniz Dogan
2011-01-07 12:43 ` Eric Lilja
2011-01-07 14:26 ` Tassilo Horn
2011-01-07 16:05 ` Eric Lilja
2011-01-07 16:59 ` Peter Dyballa
2011-01-08 17:29 ` Tassilo Horn [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.6.1294416372.29236.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-01-07 22:50 ` Tim X
[not found] <mailman.23.1294365997.1330.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-01-07 2:54 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2011-01-07 3:50 ` rusi
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