Re: Fill column indicator functionality

[Ergus <spacibba@aol.com>]

That's exactly the same I would like to have. With a small plus of being
compatible with show-trailing-whitespace.

I will start the post in reddit once I understand how to use it.


On Wed, Feb 06, 2019 at 03:48:42PM -0500, John Yates wrote:
>On Wed, Feb 6, 2019 at 11:09 AM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> Perhaps you should start a poll on Reddit about this, and we can then
>> see how many people would like to use such a feature.  Do many people
>> share you dissatisfaction with solutions that show fill-column only
>> when it is crossed, for example?
>
>I do not follow (proper verb?) Reddit.  That said I have desired
>such a feature for years.
>
>My use case (assumed very common) is actively entering / editing
>mono-spaced text within a window that is at least somewhat wider
>than the column about which I want some visual forewarning.  If I
>am merely reading I most likely do not care to have such a visual
>clue.
>
>I would be entirely happy with an ability to draw a single
>vertical line at a nominal "physical" column (not necessarily the
>fill-column).  That line would be drawn irrespective of wrapped
>continuations or other edge cases.  If the column is beyond the
>window edge then the line simply would not get drawn.  If the
>effect is ill-defined / unpalatable I would be happy to do
>without as I would be no worse off than I am today.
>
>(This seems reminiscent of recent discussion of "layers".)
>
>/john
>