Re: Fill column indicator functionality

[Ergus]

That's exactly the same I would like to have. With a small plus of being
compatible with show-trailing-whitespace.

I will start the post in reddit once I understand how to use it.


On Wed, Feb 06, 2019 at 03:48:42PM -0500, John Yates wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 6, 2019 at 11:09 AM Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Perhaps you should start a poll on Reddit about this, and we can then
> > see how many people would like to use such a feature.  Do many people
> > share you dissatisfaction with solutions that show fill-column only
> > when it is crossed, for example?
>
> I do not follow (proper verb?) Reddit.  That said I have desired
> such a feature for years.
>
> My use case (assumed very common) is actively entering / editing
> mono-spaced text within a window that is at least somewhat wider
> than the column about which I want some visual forewarning.  If I
> am merely reading I most likely do not care to have such a visual
> clue.
>
> I would be entirely happy with an ability to draw a single
> vertical line at a nominal "physical" column (not necessarily the
> fill-column).  That line would be drawn irrespective of wrapped
> continuations or other edge cases.  If the column is beyond the
> window edge then the line simply would not get drawn.  If the
> effect is ill-defined / unpalatable I would be happy to do
> without as I would be no worse off than I am today.
>
> (This seems reminiscent of recent discussion of "layers".)
>
> /john