From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "rgb" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Changing Color Of Column # In Modeline Date: 22 Nov 2005 09:24:40 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1132680280.003922.155730@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> References: <1132621655.018878.193200@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1132682877 23603 80.91.229.2 (22 Nov 2005 18:07:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 18:07:57 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 22 19:07:52 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EecYV-0002LE-AN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 19:07:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EecYP-0005Wg-U1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 13:07:41 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs Original-Lines: 16 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.74.20.73 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1132680285 22365 127.0.0.1 (22 Nov 2005 17:24:45 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 17:24:45 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <1132621655.018878.193200@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/0.2 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=198.74.20.73; posting-account=C7LM4w0AAAD23IRuMuUUJVCLQTuHhTK8 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:135651 comp.emacs:90623 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:31254 Archived-At: > How can I change the color of the column number displayed in the > modeline when when its greater than a certain value? The coding > standard where I work requires that all code be within 80 columns. So > I would like to create an eye-catcher by changing the modeline column > value to red after the point exceeds the 79th column. > > Is that possible? Does anyone have a code snippet which does that or > something similar? http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/ColumnMarker Using it is as easy as: (require 'column-marker) (add-hook foo-mode-hook (lambda ()(interactive)(column-marker-1 80)))