Re: Aligning comments with Emacs ada-mode?

[Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.de>]

On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 04:58 -0700, randomm@mindless.com wrote:
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> Hi Simon,
> 
> The documentation for set-comment-column is not on my system.

In this case you have a pretty unusual Emacs installation,
I'd say.

> What I'm looking for here is a way to override this value in my .emacs
> file.  I have the value set in Emacs now since I've changed the
> byte-compiled ada-mode (not the source).  But I want to be able to set
> it programatically.  Is this not possible?

I believe Simon's message explains it. I suggest you get ada-mode.el,
it's Free Software. If this won't be possible, you could start your
Ada source files with a line like
--    -*-mode: ada; comment-column: 42-*-

> 
> Thanks,
> Rand
> 
> Simon Wright wrote:
> > randomm@mindless.com writes:
> >
> > > Sorry, I'm not following you.  I tried (setq comment-column 60) and
> > > (setq-default comment-column 60) in my .emacs file but I didn't get
> > > them to work.  Are you suggesting meta-x set-comment-column?  What I'm
> > > looking for here is a programatic way to set the value so I don't have
> > > to issue commands.
> >
> > For help on set-comment-column type
> >
> >   C-h f s e t - c o m m e n t - c o l u m n
> >
> > (without the spaces)
> >
> > To change the default ada-mode comment column, you'll have to change
> > the source of ada-mode.el, as I think you did. Something on the lines
> > of changing
> >
> >   (set (make-local-variable 'comment-column) 40)
> >
> > to
> >
> >   (set (make-local-variable 'comment-column) 'ada-comment-column)
> > 
> > where you set ada-comment-column in your .emacs.
>