[Orgmode] Org-mode and fill-column value

[John Hendy]

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:

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| (add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'turn-on-auto-fill)

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I then added this line:

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| (setq fill-column 85)

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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:

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| Fill column set to 85 (was 70)

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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.

Thanks,

John