From: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Setting fill-column and others for text-mode
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 07:58:19 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ge1t1o$5al$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5ddf8b9b-1144-454e-ae60-1be36de9ab03@u75g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>
Decebal wrote:
> On 24 okt, 17:52, Nikolaj Schumacher <m...@nschum.de> wrote:
> \> > I would like to set fill-column, left-margin, tab-width and
> default-
>>> justification for text-mode, but I do not manage to get this working.
>>> How can this be done?
>> You can set them inside a hook like this:
>> (setq fill-column 70)
>
> It has to be:
> (setq-default fill-column 72)
>
> For fill-column and tab-width I thought it better to do it globally.
>
> I also use:
> (add-hook 'text-mode-hook (lambda () (refill-mode 1) (setq-default
> default-justification 'full)))
> (add-hook 'org-mode-hook (lambda () (refill-mode 0) (setq-default
> default-justification 'left)))
>
> But this only works partly. Refill-mode is t for text-mode and nill
> for or-mode, but default-justification is for both full. What is going
> wrong here?
What is going on here is that you explicitly set the global value of
default-justification by using setq-default, which means it affects all
buffers in all modes. The value that you are seeing depends upon which
hook was run most recently.
> I also tried:
> (add-hook 'org-mode-hook (lambda () (refill-mode 0)))
> (add-hook 'org-mode-hook (lambda () (setq-default default-
> justification 'left)))
>
> But with the same result.
>
> And I would prefer something like:
> (defun text-justification ()
> (interactive)
> (refill-mode 1)
> (setq-default default-justification 'full)
> )
>
> (defun text-no-justification ()
> (interactive)
> (refill-mode 0)
> (setq-default default-justification 'left)
> )
>
> (add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'text-justification)
> (add-hook 'org-mode-hook 'text-no-justification)
>
> Can something like this be done?
Just use normal setq instead of setq-default.
--
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-26 13:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-24 14:13 Setting fill-column and others for text-mode Decebal
2008-10-24 15:52 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
[not found] ` <mailman.2012.1224863529.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-24 16:54 ` Decebal
2008-10-24 18:06 ` Lennart Borgman
[not found] ` <mailman.2016.1224871573.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-25 8:03 ` Decebal
2008-10-25 8:49 ` Lennart Borgman
2008-10-26 13:58 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
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