From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: gareth.rees@pobox.com (Gareth Rees) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: line length control setting Date: 10 Nov 2003 10:39:23 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1068489993 22518 80.91.224.253 (10 Nov 2003 18:46:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 18:46:33 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 10 19:46:30 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AJH3W-0001n9-00 for ; Mon, 10 Nov 2003 19:46:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AJHzZ-0001CM-1K for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Nov 2003 14:46:29 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 14 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 193.112.141.206 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1068489563 22837 127.0.0.1 (10 Nov 2003 18:39:23 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 18:39:23 +0000 (UTC) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:118066 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:14005 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:14005 Adam Hardy wrote: > From what I can tell, it looks like it only alerts me to the over-long > lines when I try to save - which would be too late for the way I work > - or have I misunderstood it? No, you're quite right. But if you set your frame width appropriately, then you can spot over-long lines immediately because they overflow the right margin. Line Limit mode then spots the lines you missed. If it isn't convenient to have the frame width similar to 'fill-column', then you could try highlighting long lines, as described in http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=vafr9cfozow.fsf%40lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de -- Gareth Rees