I like the way TextWrangler does this since it's more subtle than a line - the editor background is white and becomes gray after 80 characters. The feature is under Preferences->Text Status Display- >Show page guide, in case it's not on by default.
On Dec 16, 2:08 pm, Christoffer Klang <[email protected]> wrote: > Ben -- Thanks, lots of good tips there! I still find it a bit annoying > that it's only a highlight on the characters that are close to, or > over, the 80th column. I feel that that communicates a warning or > error, rather than a guide, for where a good place to end the line is. > Maybe I'm not making sense to anyone else? > > Björn -- The reason that I posted it in this forum instead was that I > was thinking about a thin, one pixel line, rather than a column of ' | > ' characters. But I think that you are right; it would make sense to > have the feature available everywhere. Although I feel that a one > pixel line is much nicer than a blocky column of characters ;) > > Anyway, thank you for your replies. I'll look into the vim source and > see if I can make any sense out of it and post an update if i decide > to fix anything. > > /Christoffer > > On Dec 15, 8:25 am, "björn" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi Christoffer, > > > 2008/12/15 Christoffer Klang <[email protected]>: > > > > Sorry if this is at all an inappropriate way to submit feature > > > requests. Please correct me if it is. > > > No, this is an appropriate place to make feature requests. > > > > I was wondering if it would be a lot of work to implement a vertical > > > line that shows up at a certain column (usually the 80th)? I'm > > > talking about a feature that is often called 'visual print margin' in > > > other editors. > > > This seems like a feature which should be implemented in core Vim > > since it could be used on other platforms as well. You'd be better of > > requesting something like this in core Vim in which case vim_dev is > > the suitable list. I don't know what kind of response you'd get there > > though...you'd probably be better off implementing it yourself (and > > core Vim is C only, so no need to know Cocoa). Of course, the best > > solution would be to write a plugin to take care of it...(maybe the > > link Ben provided will be of use). > > > Björn --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_mac" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
