In fact putting the following lines in .emacs
;; Highlight current line
(require 'highline)
(highline-mode-on)
and the following lines in jde-mode-hook
(make-variable-buffer-local 'highline-line)
(setq highline-line (cons fill-column 240))
did the trick.
-sandip
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sandip Chitale
> Sent: Friday, July 27, 2001 4:49 PM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: limiting line length
>
>
> > >Or maybe just vertical line down the screen at char 80 to
> > >let you know when a line is to long?
> >
> > Does anyone know of a way to do this?
>
> The highline.el has a customizable variable called
> highline-line. Which seems to allow which part of the line
> to highlight. I guess it could be set to 'fill-column'
> value an you have what you want.....
>
> e.g. set highline-line to (fill-column . 240)
>
> highline-line's Documentation:
> *Specify which part of line should be highlighted.
>
> Valid values are:
>
> t mark up to end of line.
>
> nil mark up to window border. On
> XEmacs, it behaves as t.
> NOTE: Let me know, if you find a way to
> mark up to
> window border on XEmacs.
>
> INTEGER mark up from beginning of line to
> column INTEGER or to
> end of line if INTEGER exceeds line
> length. If INTEGER
> is negative, the region marked starts
> from end of line
> instead of beginning of line.
>
> (LOWER . UPPER) mark up the region from column LOWER to
> column UPPER or
> to end of line if UPPER exceeds line
> length. Nothing
> happens if LOWER exceeds line length.
> It must: 0 <= LOWER < UPPER.
>
> (point . INTEGER) mark up the region from column
> (- (current-column) INTEGER) to column
> (+ (current-column) INTEGER). It never
> goes beyond
> beginning or end of line.
> It must: INTEGER > 0.
>
> Any other value is treated as t.
>
> Here is the info on highline.el -
>
> ;;; highline.el --- Minor mode to highlight current line in buffer.
>
> ;; Copyright (C) 2000,2001 Vinicius Jose Latorre
>
> ;; Author: Vinicius Jose Latorre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> ;; Maintainer: Vinicius Jose Latorre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> ;; Keywords: faces, frames, editing
> ;; Time-stamp: <2001/02/04 17:35:28 Vinicius>
> ;; Version: 3.1
> ;; X-URL: http://www.cpqd.com.br/~vinicius/emacs/
>
>
> -sandip
>
