Re: How to highlight the right-margin column?

[sandipchitale@yahoo.com (Sandip Chitale)]

try this package:

http://www.cpqd.com.br/~vinicius/emacs/

or

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=sandip+group:gnu.emacs.sources&hl=en&lr=lang_en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=Kykh7.6465%24sa.2682126%40news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com&rnum=1

pemente@northpark.edu (Eric Pement) wrote in message news:<227a55e9.0303250706.25c2d416@posting.google.com>...
> Using GNU Emacs 21.2.1 on Win2K system:
> 
> I would like to have, in text mode, an option to toggle the display
> of the right margin line. In particular, I'd like to be able to
> toggle the background color of the current fill-column to display
> a vertical stripe in my editing window, thus showing where the text
> is in proportion to the right margin (fill-column) setting.
> 
> Has this been done before, and if so, can anyone point me to how
> to do it?  I've checked M-x apropos, both FAQs, EmacsWIKI, and the
> google archives of this newsgroup, and haven't found the answer
> yet. Thanks in advance for any assistance or pointers.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Eric Pement - pemente[at]northpark[dot]edu