Re: Aligning comments with Emacs ada-mode?

[Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>]

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.