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Re: changing number of columns.


From: David Hansen
Subject: Re: changing number of columns.
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 18:11:17 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux)

On 25 Sep 2006 08:38:30 -0700 "DaLoverhino" <DaLoveRhino@hotmail.com> wrote:

> When I do ESC-q, it rearranges text to fill up a width of about 80
> characters.
>
> How do I change the width of a text page just for that
> session?

C-u 60 C-x f

> Or change the default?

(setq-default fill-column 60)

> The reason why I ask is lot of these web-based email sites have a
> character width of 60 chars or less, which is really annoying, when I
> like to compose my emails through emacs, and copy and paste them  back
> into the web interface.  (BTW, does gmail have a 60 char width?)

Ugh...  Better use a normal SMTP server and some real MUA
(there are several available running in emacs).

David





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