From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Adam Hardy Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: line length control setting Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 12:10:48 +0100 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3FB0C3B8.7030000@cyberspaceroad.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1068549740 16722 80.91.224.253 (11 Nov 2003 11:22:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 11:22:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 11 12:22:16 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AJWbA-0001VQ-00 for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2003 12:22:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AJXYN-00084g-BY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Nov 2003 07:23:27 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AJXWa-00084Z-0Y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Nov 2003 07:21:36 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AJXQY-0007JJ-JF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Nov 2003 07:15:53 -0500 Original-Received: from [212.227.126.177] (helo=moutng.kundenserver.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AJXOd-0006v1-6Y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Nov 2003 07:13:23 -0500 Original-Received: from [212.227.126.207] (helo=mrelayng.kundenserver.de) by moutng.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1AJWQu-0005Wu-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Nov 2003 12:11:40 +0100 Original-Received: from [217.88.249.180] (helo=cyberspaceroad.com) by mrelayng.kundenserver.de with asmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1AJWQt-0002mL-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Nov 2003 12:11:39 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 X-Accept-Language: en, en-us, de-de In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:14047 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:14047 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 -- GNU Emacs 21.3.1 on Linux 2.4.20 RH9