From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gary Wessle Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: horizontal underline Date: 05 Aug 2006 02:54:47 +1000 Organization: iPrimus Customer - reports relating to abuse should be sent to abuse@iprimus.com.au Message-ID: <877j1obfvs.fsf@localhost.localdomain> References: <87d5bh5ak9.fsf@localhost.localdomain> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1154713288 21353 80.91.229.2 (4 Aug 2006 17:41:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 17:41:28 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 04 19:41:21 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G93f2-0005uH-BD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Aug 2006 19:40:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G93f1-0001wp-Lg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Aug 2006 13:40:35 -0400 Original-Lines: 23 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.134.67.67 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!multikabel.net!feed20.multikabel.net!news-out1.kabelfoon.nl!newsfeed.kabelfoon.nl!xindi.nntp.kabelfoon.nl!193.201.147.83.MISMATCH!news-out.superfeed.co.uk!propagator4-sterling.newsfeeds.com!news-in1.newsgroups.com!newsfeed.pacific.net.au!token.pipenetworks.com!218.100.2.59.MISMATCH!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-X-Trace: 1154710488 un-2park-reader-01.sydney.pipenetworks.com.au 17549 203.134.67.67:2940 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 58.178.77.147 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 127.0.0.1 Original-X-Complaints-To: Abuse, including message IDs to abuse@pipenetworks.com Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:140864 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:36491 Archived-At: David Hansen 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 will turn it on/off, horizontally but not vertically.