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Re: Why didn't setq work here?


From: Tassilo Horn
Subject: Re: Why didn't setq work here?
Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2011 18:29:29 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> writes:

>> I presume, your observation is false.  In fact, `set-fill-column'
>> does nothing except reading its argument and then doing (setq
>> fill-column arg) itself.
>
> And isn't fill-column also buffer-local, when changed?

Yes, it is.  Ah, you mean Eric might have checked the value in another
buffer, and there he saw the old default value and so thought setq
didn't work?  That might be.

Bye,
Tassilo



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