Re: line length control setting

[Adam Hardy <emacs@cyberspaceroad.com>]

On 11/10/2003 07:39 PM Gareth Rees wrote:
> Adam Hardy wrote:
>>From what I can tell, it looks like it only alerts me to the over-long
>>lines when I try to save - which would be too late for the way I work
>>- or have I misunderstood it?
> 
> No, you're quite right.  But if you set your frame width appropriately,
> then you can spot over-long lines immediately because they overflow the
> right margin.  Line Limit mode then spots the lines you missed.  If it
> isn't convenient to have the frame width similar to 'fill-column', then
> you could try highlighting long lines, as described in
> http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=vafr9cfozow.fsf%40lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de
> 

OK but it's a completely different paradigm. I have emacs maximized all 
the time but I could open it with a width of fill-column. I don't use 
the space on the right after the fill-column, but then I probably 
wouldn't know what to do with it :)

maybe it would be just as good to have a column display in the status 
bar just above the mini-buffer. How could I do that?

Or even better I remember when I used to use superedit or something 
similar, it drew a faint right margin on the page.


Adam
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