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From: | Adam Hardy |
Subject: | Re: line length control setting |
Date: | Tue, 11 Nov 2003 12:10:48 +0100 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 |
On 11/10/2003 07:39 PM Gareth Rees wrote:
Adam Hardy wrote:From what I can tell, it looks like it only alerts me to the over-long lines when I try to save - which would be too late for the way I work - or have I misunderstood it?No, you're quite right. But if you set your frame width appropriately, then you can spot over-long lines immediately because they overflow the right margin. Line Limit mode then spots the lines you missed. If it isn't convenient to have the frame width similar to 'fill-column', then you could try highlighting long lines, as described in http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=vafr9cfozow.fsf%40lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de
OK but it's a completely different paradigm. I have emacs maximized all the time but I could open it with a width of fill-column. I don't use the space on the right after the fill-column, but then I probably wouldn't know what to do with it :)
maybe it would be just as good to have a column display in the status bar just above the mini-buffer. How could I do that?
Or even better I remember when I used to use superedit or something similar, it drew a faint right margin on the page.
Adam -- GNU Emacs 21.3.1 on Linux 2.4.20 RH9
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