From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: Another neat Eclipse'ism Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:27:26 -0700 Message-ID: <00c401c8d220$fb1ac080$c2b22382@us.oracle.com> References: <485A11A1.6070209@pajato.com> <87y7517pky.fsf@localhorst.mine.nu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1213889301 15166 80.91.229.12 (19 Jun 2008 15:28:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:28:21 +0000 (UTC) To: "'David Hansen'" , Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 19 17:29:05 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K9M3z-0006PX-W5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:28:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47977 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K9M3B-000156-69 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:27:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K9M36-00014q-Io for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:27:44 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K9M34-00014d-Vs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:27:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50825 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K9M34-00014a-PN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:27:42 -0400 Original-Received: from agminet01.oracle.com ([141.146.126.228]:56513) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K9M33-00005F-Sg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:27:42 -0400 Original-Received: from agmgw2.us.oracle.com (agmgw2.us.oracle.com [152.68.180.213]) by agminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id m5JFRaTY019155; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:27:37 -0500 Original-Received: from acsmt351.oracle.com (acsmt351.oracle.com [141.146.40.151]) by agmgw2.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.0/Switch-3.2.0) with ESMTP id m5J4M40M027930; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:27:36 -0600 Original-Received: from inet-141-146-46-1.oracle.com by acsmt350.oracle.com with ESMTP id 3696883021213889246; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:27:26 -0700 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/130.35.178.194) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:27:26 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <87y7517pky.fsf@localhorst.mine.nu> Thread-Index: AcjR7jpD7sg22pO4QqGVESW6b0YsIAAMmEIQ X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:99471 Archived-At: > > 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. Yes, see this page: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/HighlightCurrentColumn It also links to other pages that deal with this.