Re: highlight-80+ --- highlight characters beyond column 80

Re: highlight-80+ --- highlight characters beyond column 80

[Richard M. Stallman]

    (defgroup highlight-80+ nil
      "Highlight characters beyond column 80."
      :group 'faces)

    (defcustom highlight-80+-columns 80
      "*Number of columns to allow in lines."
      :group 'highlight-80+
      :type 'integer)

Perhaps this should be a standard feature
so that this variable could have a shorter and more natural name.

Re: highlight-80+ --- highlight characters beyond column 80

[Vinicius Jose Latorre]

>     (defgroup highlight-80+ nil
>       "Highlight characters beyond column 80."
>       :group 'faces)
>
>     (defcustom highlight-80+-columns 80
>       "*Number of columns to allow in lines."
>       :group 'highlight-80+
>       :type 'integer)
>
> Perhaps this should be a standard feature
> so that this variable could have a shorter and more natural name.
>   


Well, whitespace.el has a similar feature:


;; Thanks to nschum (EmacsWiki) for the idea about highlight "long"
;; lines tail.  See EightyColumnRule (EmacsWiki).


(defcustom whitespace-line-column 80
  "*Specify column beyond which the line is highlighted.

Used when `whitespace-style' includes `lines' or `lines-tail'."
  :type '(integer :tag "Line Length")
  :group 'whitespace)

Re: highlight-80+ --- highlight characters beyond column 80

[Nikolaj Schumacher]

Vinicius Jose Latorre <viniciusjl@ig.com.br> wrote:

>>     (defgroup highlight-80+ nil
>>       "Highlight characters beyond column 80."
>>       :group 'faces)
>>
>> Perhaps this should be a standard feature
>> so that this variable could have a shorter and more natural name.
>
> Well, whitespace.el has a similar feature:
>
> ;; Thanks to nschum (EmacsWiki) for the idea about highlight "long"
> ;; lines tail.  See EightyColumnRule (EmacsWiki).

Yes, that would be me, as well.  I didn't know it had been implemented.
highlight-80+ is a materialization of the same idea, so it's probably
identical, give or take a few options.


regards,
Nikolaj Schumacher

Re: highlight-80+ --- highlight characters beyond column 80

[Dan Nicolaescu]

Vinicius Jose Latorre <viniciusjl@ig.com.br> writes:

  > >     (defgroup highlight-80+ nil
  > >       "Highlight characters beyond column 80."
  > >       :group 'faces)
  > >
  > >     (defcustom highlight-80+-columns 80
  > >       "*Number of columns to allow in lines."
  > >       :group 'highlight-80+
  > >       :type 'integer)
  > >
  > > Perhaps this should be a standard feature
  > > so that this variable could have a shorter and more natural name.
  > >   
  > 
  > 
  > Well, whitespace.el has a similar feature:
  > 
  > 
  > ;; Thanks to nschum (EmacsWiki) for the idea about highlight "long"
  > ;; lines tail.  See EightyColumnRule (EmacsWiki).

Can you please document this at least in etc/NEWS?  Otherwise it's very
hard to guess that such a feature would be found in whitespace.el ...


  > (defcustom whitespace-line-column 80
  >  "*Specify column beyond which the line is highlighted.
  > 
  > Used when `whitespace-style' includes `lines' or `lines-tail'."
  >  :type '(integer :tag "Line Length")
  >  :group 'whitespace)

Re: highlight-80+ --- highlight characters beyond column 80

[Vinicius Jose Latorre]

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>   > >     (defgroup highlight-80+ nil
>   > >       "Highlight characters beyond column 80."
>   > >       :group 'faces)
>   > >
>
>   > >     (defcustom highlight-80+-columns 80
>   > >       "*Number of columns to allow in lines."
>   > >       :group 'highlight-80+
>   > >       :type 'integer)
>
>   > >
>   > > Perhaps this should be a standard feature
>   > > so that this variable could have a shorter and more natural name.
>   > >
>   >
>   >
>   > Well, whitespace.el has a similar feature:
>   >
>   >
>   > ;; Thanks to nschum (EmacsWiki) for the idea about highlight "long"
>   > ;; lines tail.  See EightyColumnRule (EmacsWiki).
>
>
> Can you please document this at least in etc/NEWS?  Otherwise it's very
> hard to guess that such a feature would be found in whitespace.el ...




You're right!  I had not much time to do it, but I'll put the whitespace.el
main features in etc/NEWS.



  > (defcustom whitespace-line-column 80
>   >  "*Specify column beyond which the line is highlighted.
>   >
>   > Used when `whitespace-style' includes `lines' or `lines-tail'."
>   >  :type '(integer :tag "Line Length")
>   >  :group 'whitespace)
>

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Re: highlight-80+ --- highlight characters beyond column 80

[Vinicius Jose Latorre]

> Can you please document this at least in etc/NEWS?  Otherwise it's very
> hard to guess that such a feature would be found in whitespace.el ...
>   

I've just improved in CVS Emacs the whitespace information in etc/NEWS.