RE: How to highlight columns?

Glynn Clements <[email protected]> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 23:33:17 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.xemacs.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Dan Bar Dov wrote:

> Good, except as you noted the tabs. Can it use the "tab-width" to
> compensate?

In that case, you'd have to to locate column 80 manually rather than
using a regexp (well, unless you used a regexp which matched all
possible 80-column-wide strings, which probably wouldn't be
practical).

Looking at the output from "C-h a column RET", move-to-column might be
of use.

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Glynn Clements <[email protected]>