Re: horizontal underline

[Gary Wessle <phddas@yahoo.com>]

David Hansen <david.hansen@gmx.net> writes:

> On 04 Aug 2006 15:33:58 +1000 Gary Wessle wrote:
> 
> > I am looking at some data columns from a visited file. is there a way
> > to have a horizontal line which I can move with the arrow up/down under
> > any given line. and maybe the same vertically as well?
> 
> In emacs 22 (devel version) there is `hl-line-mode'.  If
> it's not part of emacs 21.4 try to look up a solution on the
> emacswiki or google groups.  I'm pretty sure i had something
> like this working on emacs 21.
> 
> For horizontal lines...  There is a package called
> `column-marker' (again look for that at the emacswiki).  But
> i think it's made for a highlighting a fixed column.  Maybe
> you can hack it a bit.
> 
> David

the fix;

M-x hl-line-mode <RET> will turn it on/off, horizontally but not vertically.