Re: set margin width locally doesn't work

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

najja <sumnerbarney@gmail.com> writes:

> hi there,
>
> I like having two blank margin flanking the text when I do my daily
> editing so I add this to my .emacs:
>
> (setq default-left-margin-width 20)
> (setq default-right-margin-width 20)
>
> However, now I want to extend my emacs usage to other fields such as
> email and rss reading. However, this margin setting will create a
> blank margin in gnus and newsticker buffer just like in others. I have
> tried to add the following settings to .emacs.
>
> (add-hook 'newsticker-treeview-list-mode-hook
>            (setq left-margin-width 0)
>            (setq right-margin-width 0)))
>
> but it doesn't help. Obviously setting margin width doesn't take
> effect immediately. Is there any way to set margin width to a buffer
> locally and effectively?

C-h f add-hook RET and read it closely.


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