A line with a darkening background after the 80th char is a nice visual cue. It would be nice to have.
+1 from moi :) On Dec 30 2008, 12:46 pm, Jean-Marie Gaillourdet <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi list, > > > > On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 10:24:58PM -0800, Christoffer Klang wrote: > > Sorry if this is at all an inappropriate way to submit feature > > requests. Please correct me if it is. > > > 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. > > > I find this visual cue to be very helpful when programming to avoid > > having too wide lines, and would love to have it in Macvim. I know > > that I can keep my eye on the current column in the statusbar, and the > > trick to highlight the 81th char using search, but I feel that both of > > these ways take away my focus and interrupts the workflow. The same is > > definitely true for setting :tw=80 and letting the text wrap > > automatically. > > IntelliJ Idea does provide such a line and I liked it very much, too. > But I'd like to extend that feature request even more: IntelliJ uses > such thin *horizontal* lines to separate methods in Java source. And > that is IMHO a real killer feature as it helps to spot the building > blocks immediately. I'd love to see such lines vim/gvim/macvim. > > If someone could point me into the right direction I'd be willing to > implement it myself. Though I have never looked into the source of Vim > so far. > > Best regards, > Jean --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_mac" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
