horizontal underline

horizontal underline

[Gary Wessle]

Hi

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?

thanks 

Re: horizontal underline

[David Hansen]

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

Re: horizontal underline

[martin]

"GW" == Gary Wessle <phddas@yahoo.com> writes:
 GW> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
 GW> Date: 04 Aug 2006 15:33:58 +1000
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 GW> 
 GW> Hi
 GW> 
 GW> I am looking at some data columns from a visited file. is there a way
 GW> to have a horizontal line which I can move with the arrow up/down under
 GW> any given line. and maybe the same vertically as well?
 GW> 
 GW> thanks 
 GW> 

Hi,

something similar for the horizontal case would be highline.el.
(http://www.cpqd.com.br/~vinicius/emacs/highline.el.gz)

Martin

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Re: horizontal underline

[Gary Wessle]

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.