Fantastic.
It becomes buffer-local when set in any way. TryJohn Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to set my fill-column variable to a bit higher value since I have no real need to keep it at 70, however my attempts seem not to be working.
>
> The relevant section in .emacs looks like this:
> ,-----
> | (add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'turn-on-auto-fill)
> `-----
>
> I then added this line:
> ,-----
> | (setq fill-column 85)
> `-----
>
> I've tried using it before and after the text-mode-hook setting above, but when I restart emacs and do =C-x f= to set the fill-column variable to 85, the minibuffer reports:
> ,-----
> | Fill column set to 85 (was 70)
> `-----
>
> Something isn't getting set. I guess this isn't necessarily an org-mode issue, but I thought someone might know why it's happening here? I can't find much discussion when searching for org-mode users also using fill and if they set the fill-column value or not.
>
(setq-default fill-column 85)
in your .emacs.
Nick