SET WIDTH Sets the width to the number of columns you specify. This does not affect how many characters you can put on a line (which is determined by the right margin), but only how many characters are visible. Examples: Commands Effects ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SET WIDTH 132 Sets the width to 132 columns, which uses a smaller video font. This lets you view very wide text, such as multicolumn tables or source programs that use progressive indenting, without having to shift the window horizontally. SET WIDTH 80 Sets the width to 80 columns---typically, the default---and uses the standard-size video font. Usage notes: o Default width is your terminal setting, usually 80 columns. To find out the current width, use the SHOW command. o SET WIDTH applies to all EVE windows, if you are using more than one. It also applies only to your editing session; when you exit or quit, the terminal setting is restored. o SET WIDTH makes the right margin of the $DEFAULTS$ buffer one column less than the width. Buffers you create thereafter will have the same right margin as $DEFAULTS$. For example, SET WIDTH 132 makes the default right margin 131; SET WIDTH 80 makes the default right margin 79. This does not affect the right margin of other, existing buffers. See help on SET RIGHT MARGIN. o If you reduce the width of the window, the indicators at the left of the status line may be clipped because EVE tries to keep the buffer name full size. See help on Status Line. o Width is a global setting, but is not saved in a section file or command file. To keep your setting for future editing sessions, put the SET WIDTH command you want in an initialization file (typically named EVE$INIT.EVE). See help on Initialization Files. o On DECwindows, you can set the width as follows: 1. Choose Set Width from the Display menu or the Customize menu. 2. A dialog box appears in which you type the width you want. Related topics: SET RIGHT MARGIN SHIFT LEFT SHIFT RIGHT SHOW