From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: William King Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Grid lines in background Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 13:44:45 +0100 Message-ID: <4DFF40BD.3010200@gmx.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1308593631 20385 80.91.229.12 (20 Jun 2011 18:13:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 18:13:51 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 20 20:13:46 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QYiym-0003f2-L7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Jun 2011 20:13:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42288 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QYiyl-0000ul-Gw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Jun 2011 14:13:43 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:34208) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QYdqc-00044m-Km for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Jun 2011 08:44:59 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QYdqb-0002k2-9O for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Jun 2011 08:44:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mailout-eu.gmx.com ([213.165.64.42]:56813) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QYdqa-0002jV-LR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Jun 2011 08:44:57 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 20 Jun 2011 12:44:54 -0000 Original-Received: from host81-158-140-217.range81-158.btcentralplus.com (EHLO [192.168.1.69]) [81.158.140.217] by mail.gmx.com (mp-eu002) with SMTP; 20 Jun 2011 14:44:54 +0200 X-Authenticated: #69129942 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+8QP8o3Vu84OEyJTJEWDnxLzfwc1Ej/EJenbfdPB 5jLTxDiHUstVHW User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Thunderbird/3.1.10 X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 213.165.64.42 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 12:53:51 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:81373 Archived-At: I'm using voice recognition software (Dragon naturally speaking) in emacs that allows me to specify a row and column to which I would like the cursor moved. This works very well. However, while it is visually easy specifying a line number, things are awkward when specifying the column number because I can't tell exactly which column I want to go to. I want a way to make this easier. My preferred solution would be to have some kind of grid lines in the background of all windows, for example for the shading of the background to alternate every 10 columns, so that I can tell reasonably easily at a glance that a particular character is in column x. I can't work out a way of doing this. "column-number-mode" does not provide what I need. I have looked at vline.el, but this seems only to highlight the column that the cursor is in. I would really appreciate any advice about how I might approach this problem. Many thanks. Will King