On 1/19/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Eli Zaretskii</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:eliz@gnu.org">eliz@gnu.org</a>&gt; wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Actually, I&#39;m not surprised at all that this functionality is missing . . .</blockquote><div><br>Hmm, I figured that there might be a rationale.&nbsp; However, if that is true, then why are there global minor modes like global-font-lock-mode?
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Could you perhaps be more specific in the description of what you<br>want?&nbsp;&nbsp;Specifically, what files do you visit in the buffers that you
<br>must have in column marker mode?&nbsp;&nbsp;Do these files have some special<br>extension, or turn on some specific major or minor modes, or have<br>something else in common?</blockquote><div><br></div></div>The purpose is allowing my window to be wider than eighty characters but knowing where the eighty character limit is.&nbsp; Some of my coworkers write code that is wider than eighty characters.&nbsp; However, I cannot stand wide code and company policy is an 80 character max.&nbsp; So I&#39;d like to be able to easily read the long-lined code, but I&#39;d also like to have a guard that will prevent me from going over the line.
<br><br>This applies to several programming languages, text files, configuration files, and even non-files (I have a personal aversion to &gt;80 chars in all files I edit).&nbsp; Since my only use for emacs is to edit these kinds of files, I&#39;d like to have a guard at the end so that I can know when I&#39;m over the line.
<br><br>auto-fill-mode will not work because I don&#39;t want to have to do a code review for all those lines in every file I change.&nbsp; Also, it sometimes inserts newlines in places I would not want it to.&nbsp; For instance, if I&#39;m coming to the end of the line and I&#39;m writing the expression (x + y), auto-fill-mode may insert the newline before or after the plus.&nbsp; In either case, by the time I have realized this has happened, I have to add my own newline before the open parenthesis and delete the auto-fill-added newline.&nbsp; It would be easier if it stayed on one line and there was a guard.&nbsp; I can accomplish this behavior by setting my window width, but, as I mentioned, that is an unsuitable solution for me.
<br><br>Maybe this will help you understand my problem.<br><br>Yours,<br>James Aguilar<br>-- <br>[?] James Aguilar<br>[@] 333 Rengstorff Ave #23, Mountain View, CA, 94043<br>[#] 314 494 0450<br>[!] Lately things just dont seem the same