Hi Jochen,
Thanks again for your continuing emails. My problems are solved! Your
talk about "hooks" sent me off in the right direction (I guess hooks are
a little snippet of code that gets run for particular file types -
effectively overriding the defaults).
On reading my .emacs I saw that it was loading /etc/skel/.gnu-emacs
after checking that ~/.gnu-emacs didn't exist. I copied
/etc/skel/.gnu-emacs to ~/.gnu-emacs and then I edited the lines
;; Fill-column
;; -----------
;; Fill-column ist hier auf 78 Charakter gesetzt, nach Wunsch "andern!
(setq-default fill-column 78)
(add-hook 'TeX-mode-hook '(lambda () (setq fill-column 78)))
and also
;;
;; Common to all C modes
;; ---------------------
(add-hook 'c-mode-common-hook
'(lambda () (c-set-style "linux")
(c-set-offset 'case-label 4)
(setq c-basic-offset 4)))
to the values of 72 and 2 respectively.
Now, I have the defaults that I want!
Thanks to you and Marek for your help,
Jeff.
I tried putting the lines into a tex file and it works. :-) The
problem is that I have a lot of tex files... what I would ideally
like is a way to tell emacs to *always* wrap to 72 for tex files by
default.
Use customize to put it into TeX-mode-hook.
,----[ C-h v TeX-mode-hook RET ]
| TeX-mode-hook's value is nil
|
| A hook run in TeX mode buffers.
|
| You can customize this variable.
|
| Defined in `tex'.
|
| [back]
`----
Maybe you also want text-mode-hook or similar?
,----[ C-h v text-mode-hook RET ]
| text-mode-hook's value is
| (turn-on-auto-fill dirvars-hack-local-variables-before text-mode-hook-identify)
|
| Hook run when entering Text mode.
|
| You can customize this variable.
|
| Defined in `textmodes/text-mode'.
|
| [back]
`----
Greetings,
Jochen
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