From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: Paul Michael Reilly <pmr@pajato.com>
Cc: emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Another neat Eclipse'ism
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 14:32:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <485CF4E0.1080907@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <485CE7BD.3080009@pajato.com>
Paul Michael Reilly wrote:
> Drew Adams wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 03:58:25 -0400 Paul Michael Reilly wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> While I try to do most of my editing from Emacs,
>>> occasionally I will
>>>>> find myself using the Eclipse Java editor. One of the
>>> more convenient
>>>>> niceties, in the absence of auto-fill-mode, is having the
>>> print-margin
>>>>> displayed. This is a useful feature in its own right,
>>> i.e. show a 1
>>>>> pixel background line in Emacs where the right margin is set.
>>>>> Needless to say, I have not a clue how to implement it.
>>>> Not 100% the same but there is column-marker-mode available
>>> (search the
>>>> emacswiki). It will highlight a given column iff the line
>>> is at least
>>>> that long.
>>> FWIW, column-marker.el is pretty cool but it pales by comparison to
>>> the approach used in Eclipse. The Eclipse
>>> solution is barely noticeable whereas the Emacs highlighting
>>> solution is very much in your face.
>>
>> Again:
>> http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/HighlightCurrentColumn
>>
>> Some of the other aids are less in-your-face than col-highlight.el.
>> Some are
>> "barely noticeable".
>
> Agreed. In particular, vline mode with a suitable face is a reasonable
> solution.
It looks very good IMO but unfortunately it sometimes hit bugs in Emacs
display engine. See the Emacs Devel archives.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-21 12:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-19 7:58 Another neat Eclipse'ism Paul Michael Reilly
2008-06-19 9:15 ` David Hansen
2008-06-19 15:27 ` Drew Adams
2008-06-20 14:11 ` Paul Michael Reilly
2008-06-20 14:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-21 11:32 ` Paul Michael Reilly
2008-06-21 11:44 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-06-21 18:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-20 16:44 ` Drew Adams
2008-06-21 11:36 ` Paul Michael Reilly
2008-06-21 12:32 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail) [this message]
2008-06-21 16:03 ` Drew Adams
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