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Christian Seberino wrote:
> I often write comments and code and look at modeline's Column# display
> to verify I did not go beyond the 80th column when I type.
> 
> Are there any goodies in Emacs to help me accomplish this???

You could try line-limit-mode.  See
<http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=uhfdaw35e.fsf%40pobox.com>.

-- 
Gareth Rees