RE: Searching for lines longer than x characters possible?

["Bingham, Jay" <Jay.Bingham@hp.com>]

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You are talking about emacs aren't you?  Of course it is possible. :)

I looked at the other suggestions and found them lacking.  So I wrote a little function that puts the cursor (point) on the desired column of any line longer that the desired maximum column.  
Here it is:
 <<find-long-line.el>> 

Hope you enjoy it.
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 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Barry Margolin [mailto:barmar@genuity.net] 
Sent:	Friday, November 08, 2002 10:53 AM
To:	help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject:	Re: Searching for lines longer than x characters possible?

In article <h8ngqa.ppu.ln@davidlist.dk>,
David List  <david@davidlist.dk> wrote:
>I would like to go through some program source files before converting them 
>to ps, to check for lines longer than, for instance, 80 characters, so that 
>I don't get strange looking ps files.
>
>Is this possible with emacs?

M-x occur RET C-u 81 . RET

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;;; find-long-line.el --- Find the next long line in the buffer

;;-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
;; Last Modified Time-stamp: <08Nov2002 12:44:36 CST by JCBingham>
;;-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

;; Copyright 2002 JCBingham
;;
;; Author: jay.bingham@hp.com
;; Version: $Id: find-long-line.el,v 0.01 2002/11/08 17:41:33 JCBingham Exp $
;; Keywords: find long lines
;; Requirements: tested in v21.2
;; Status: not yet part of EMACS

;; This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
;; any later version.
;;
;; This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
;; GNU General Public License for more details.
;;
;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
;; along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
;; Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.


;;; Commentary:

;; This package contains a function that finds the next long line in the
;; buffer and positions the cursor (point) at the maximum column desired on
;; the line.
;;
;; The interactive functions in this package are:
;;	find-long-line

;; To load this package in all your emacs sessions put this file into your 
;; load-path and put the following line (without the comment delimiter) 
;; into your ~/.emacs:
;;   (require 'find-long-line)

;; To auto-load this package in your emacs sessions (loaded only when needed)
;; put this file into your load-path and put the following lines (without the
;; comment delimiters) into your ~/.emacs:
;;   (autoload 'func-name "find-long-line"
;;  "func-desc"
;;  t nil)


;;;++ Module History ++

;; 08 Nov 2002 - JCBingham - 
;;	 Initial version containing the following -
;;	interactive functions:
;;	 find-long-line
;;	 

;;;-- Module History end --


;;; Code:

(provide 'find-long-line)

\f
;;;;##########################################################################
;;;;  Interactive Functions
;;;;##########################################################################

;;;======<Interactive Function>===============================================
;; Function: interactive-function-name
;;  Find the next long line in the current buffer.
;;
;; Psuedo code:
;;  set the default maximum column to 80
;;  if the numeric argument is a whole number greater than 0
;;    set the maximum column to the numeric argumnet
;;  endif
;;  while end of this line is not greater than the maximum column
;;    go to next line
;;  endwhile
;;  position cursor at the maximum column on this line.
;;
(defun find-long-line (max-col-arg)
  "Find the next long line in the current buffer."
  (interactive "P")
  (let ((max-col 80))
    (if (and (wholenump max-col-arg) (> max-col-arg 0))
	(setq max-col max-col-arg))
    (progn
      (while
	  (and
	   (not (end-of-line))
	   (< (current-column) max-col))
	(forward-char))
      (move-to-column max-col))))

;;; END OF find-long-line.el