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From: Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Number of characters per line
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2003 11:20:21 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F54D155.7030704@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1c58a7c3.0309020706.20a98dad@posting.google.com

Barman Brakjoller wrote:

>>Could someone tell me how to set the maximum number of characters per line
>>to 70 for C++ mode.
>>
> 
> I cannot tell you how but as almost anything in Emacs is tweakable it
> would certainly be possible to hook-on a function that after each
> keyboard press checked if the current column was greater then a
> certain number, and if it was, BEEP at the user. Would be very
> annoying though... :)

(defun annoy ()
   (if (>= (current-column) 70)
       (beep t)))

(add-hook 'post-command-hook 'annoy)

-- 
Kevin Rodgers

      reply	other threads:[~2003-09-02 17:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-01  9:15 Number of characters per line Chemtux
2003-09-02  7:33 ` Joakim Hove
2003-09-02 14:46 ` Michal Wyrebski
2003-09-02 15:06 ` Barman Brakjoller
2003-09-02 17:20   ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]

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