Re: Another neat Eclipse'ism

[Paul Michael Reilly]

Drew Adams wrote:
> > > On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 03:58:25 -0400 Paul Michael Reilly wrote:
> > >
> > > > While I try to do most of my editing from Emacs, 
> > occasionally I will
> > > > find myself using the Eclipse Java editor.  One of the 
> > more convenient
> > > > niceties, in the absence of auto-fill-mode, is having the 
> > print-margin
> > > > displayed.  This is a useful feature in its own right, 
> > i.e. show a 1
> > > > pixel background line in Emacs where the right margin is set.
> > > > Needless to say, I have not a clue how to implement it.
> > > Not 100% the same but there is column-marker-mode available 
> > (search the
> > > emacswiki).  It will highlight a given column iff the line 
> > is at least
> > > that long.
> > FWIW, column-marker.el is pretty cool but it pales by 
> > comparison to the approach used in Eclipse.   The Eclipse
> > solution is barely noticeable whereas the Emacs highlighting
> > solution is very much in your face.
>
> Again:
> http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/HighlightCurrentColumn
>
> Some of the other aids are less in-your-face than col-highlight.el. Some are
> "barely noticeable".

Agreed.  In particular, vline mode with a suitable face is a reasonable 
solution.

-pmr