Re: Selectable line width for `W w'?

["St. Suika Fenderson Roberts" <wrobert2@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu>]

Colin Rafferty <craffert@spspme.ml.com> writes:
> Karl Kleinpaste writes:
>> How difficult would it be to arrange for `W w' to use the *Article*
>> buffer's current width (less some right margin border size, maybe 5
>> characters) as the fill-column?  Or, alternatively, to take an
>> argument specifying the desired width?

> How about using `defadvice'?  Untested code follows:

> (defadvice gnus-article-fill-cited-article (around set-fill-column activate compile)
>   "Change fill-column of *Article* to \"good\" size."
>   (save-excursion
>     (set-buffer gnus-article-buffer)
>     (set-fill-column (- (frame-width) 5)))
>   ad-do-it)

One modification, that being to use window-width instead, which should
make sure things work when one uses vertical splits or
(possibly/probably) on a dumbish terminal.

hope this helps,
	Suika
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