Re: mode line: 1) indicate region size, if active; 2) highlight column # if > limit

["David House" <dmhouse@gmail.com>]

On 06/06/07, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
> See the code; it's pretty simple:
> http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/modeline-posn.el.

Thanks, I'll read through.

> The only intention is to highlight the column number. I see no reason for a
> line (i.e. row) limit, do you?

Just thinking along the lines of style guides for programming
languages that dictate that files > 1000 lines should be split.

> The code I use highlights the column number indicator, if only column-number
> mode is on. It highlights the whole pair (line, col), if both line-number
> mode and column-number mode are on. It does not highlight the line number,
> if only line-number mode is on.
>
> Perhaps the code could be tweaked to highlight only the column number when
> both line number mode and column number mode are on, but I'm not bothered by
> the extra line-number highlighting, personally.

Seems acceptable, it's not that big of a deal at the end of the day.

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-David House, dmhouse@gmail.com