From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Brendan Miller Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: visually mark off 80th column? Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 11:23:17 -0800 Message-ID: References: <4847730AFCD64ECC83BED420A9258704@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1264188590 21483 80.91.229.12 (22 Jan 2010 19:29:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:29:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 22 20:29:38 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NYPCH-0006kF-0H for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Jan 2010 20:29:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37951 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NYP7J-0002e3-Gr for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:24:25 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NYP6K-0002aG-En for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:23:24 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NYP6E-0002a4-Qx for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:23:23 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=54293 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NYP6E-0002a1-KV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:23:18 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-px0-f192.google.com ([209.85.216.192]:37977) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NYP6E-00063a-Ab for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:23:18 -0500 Original-Received: by pxi30 with SMTP id 30so962732pxi.14 for ; Fri, 22 Jan 2010 11:23:17 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.142.3.28 with SMTP id 28mr2257132wfc.106.1264188197263; Fri, 22 Jan 2010 11:23:17 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4847730AFCD64ECC83BED420A9258704@us.oracle.com> X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:71376 Archived-At: I installed ColumnMarker from here: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ColumnMarker into ~/emacs and then put this in my emacs file to always highlight the 80th column: (add-to-list 'load-path "~/emacs/") (require 'column-marker) (column-marker-1 80) However this does nothing. If I m-x column-marker-1 it simply highlights the current line... anyone know what's going on? I almost never touch elisp. Brendan On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 5:53 PM, Drew Adams wrote: >> In my other editors I always turn on a little line that delimits the >> 80th column. How do I do this in emacs? > > http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/FindLongLines#ShowLongLines > >