From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'William King'" <willking10@gmx.com>, <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: Grid lines in background
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 11:27:10 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <D2D66858C78D4B628D6D068F781BD38D@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DFF40BD.3010200@gmx.com>
> 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.
Dunno whether this helps, but you might want to take a look at Alp Aker's code
for column highlighting:
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/FillColumnIndicator
I don't know whether you can use it to do what you want, but perhaps take a
look.
There are other column-highlighting libraries on the wiki as well, but perhaps
you have already tried them. Here is are two entry points, which mention some
of them:
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/HighlightCurrentColumn
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EightyColumnRule
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-20 18:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-20 12:44 Grid lines in background William King
2011-06-20 18:27 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2011-06-21 17:37 ` Alp Aker
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