From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miguel Frasson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: about buffer local variables Date: 16 Aug 2004 17:27:00 +0200 Organization: Universiteit Leiden Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1092670275 28510 80.91.224.253 (16 Aug 2004 15:31:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 15:31:15 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 16 17:31:00 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BwjRs-0008T2-00 for ; Mon, 16 Aug 2004 17:31:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BwjVy-00032m-QA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Aug 2004 11:35:14 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!fr.ip.ndsoftware.net!feeder.enertel.nl!nntpfeed-01.ops.asmr-01.energis-idc.net!surfnet.nl!leidenuniv.nl!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 19 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 84e5e602.math.leidenuniv.nl Original-X-Trace: mercury.leidenuniv.nl 1092670020 22612 132.229.230.2 (16 Aug 2004 15:27:00 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@mercury.leidenuniv.nl Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 15:27:00 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:124787 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:20134 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:20134 Abishek K writes: > i tried to set the variable fill-column in my .emacs file using > (set-fill-column 120) > how ever there was no effect and the documentation says that > fill-column is buffer local. > and so, shows a global value of the default 70. > how do i change this? > i'd like to make fill-column globally 120. > bye > abi Customize it M-x customize-variable RET fill-column RET -- Miguel Vinicius Santini Frasson http://www.math.leidenuniv.nl/~frasson