Re: Another neat Eclipse'ism

[David Hansen]

On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 03:58:25 -0400 Paul Michael Reilly wrote:

> While I try to do most of my editing from Emacs, occasionally I will
> find myself using the Eclipse Java editor.  One of the more convenient
> niceties, in the absence of auto-fill-mode, is having the print-margin
> displayed.  This is a useful feature in its own right, i.e. show a 1
> pixel background line in Emacs where the right margin is set.
> Needless to say, I have not a clue how to implement it.

Not 100% the same but there is column-marker-mode available (search the
emacswiki).  It will highlight a given column iff the line is at least
that long.

David