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Re: shading after column x
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Alan Wehmann |
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Re: shading after column x |
Date: |
18 Dec 2003 22:56:19 -0600 |
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Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.4 (Portable Code) |
The following is from Toby Speight, posted 26 Jan 1999 in comp.emacs.
It may be of interest.
Kai has already mentioned vvb.el. There was also a post that
mentioned wide-column.el.
David> Is there a package available in either GNU or Xemacs which will
David> help me know when I've "crossed the line". I do display the
David> column number in my mode bar, but dont' always watch it. I
David> need something like a vertical bar drawn at col 80 or other
David> visual notification when I've entered text beyond col 80. I
David> don't want to _not_ be able to type past 80 cols, just to know
David> when I've done it.
When I wanted to do this in Message mode, I used font-lock to help
me. I added this match to the end of font-lock-keywords for the mode:
(list (concat "^" (make-string 76 ?.) "\\(.+$\\)") '(1 warning-face
t))
You'll want to change the 76 to 80, of course. And you might perhaps
need to define/change the face, too.
--
Alan Wehmann
wehmann@fnal.gov