Re: Changing Color Of Column # In Modeline

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> How can I change the color of the column number displayed in the
> modeline when when its greater than a certain value?   The coding
> standard where I work requires that all code be within 80 columns.  So
> I would like to create an eye-catcher by changing the modeline column
> value to red after the point exceeds the 79th column.
>
> Is that possible?  Does anyone have a code snippet which does that or
> something similar?

http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/ColumnMarker

Using it is as easy as:

(require 'column-marker)
(add-hook foo-mode-hook (lambda ()(interactive)(column-marker-1 80)))