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I want to have an indication of which lines are longer than a given number of columns. I have been using whitespace with the following instructions: (set-face-background 'whitespace-line "grey30&...
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For a given Chinese character, C-u C-x = (what-cursor-position DETAIL) says category: .:Base, C:2-byte han, L:Strong L2R, c:Chinese, j:Japanese, |:line breakable How can I remove the 'line breakable'...
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Switching from fill-column-indicator (sadly too many issues now, but it was a good run) to native display-fill-column-indicator has left me with some unsightly gaps: (setq-default line-spacing 0.25) ...
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I'm using Emacs-28.2 (9.0) on MacOS Sonoma 14.3 and Emacs 26.1-10 on RedHat-8.8. In both cases I have the same config with the following setting: (setq fill-column 79) So I was expecting that when I ...
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I am setting the fill column (80) to specify the maximum width of a line before it should be automatically wrapped or broken into multiple lines. Although this setting is useful for ensuring ...
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I have these settings in my init.el: (global-display-fill-column-indicator-mode 1) (setq-default fill-column 120) (setq-default display-fill-column-indicator t) (setq-default display-fill-column-...
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My code (custom-set-variables '(global-display-fill-column-indicator-mode t) '(minibuffer-mode-hook `(,@minibuffer-mode-hook ,(lambda () (...
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With ruler-mode enabled and using (setq fill-column 72), I still see the fill-column icon in ruler-mode at column 70. I want to customise fill-column globally or according to major mode. Can one do ...
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Typically I have two windows, left and right, with the left window (call it the "editing window") showing a buffer in a prog-mode or text-mode and the right window (call it the "...
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Here is what I want: (fill-string ";; This is a long string to be inserted into a buffer somewhere. Okay that's it.") This should insert line breaks according to the fill-column. Something ...
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I want to wrap the LOGBOOK editing window at column width I'm yet to decide. From another answer here I see need to set something along the lines of (add-hook 'some-logbook-mode-hook #'auto-fill-mode) ...
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When I open a Python file I keep seeing Fill column set to 80 (was 80) message in the echo area. I know I have set it this limit , but I don't want to be keep reminded about it. Is it possible to ...
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How can one enable org-indent-mode (or otherwise indent content to Org headings) while still maintaining a consistent visual fill column?
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How can I automatically set fill-column based on flake8 configuration for python-mode buffers, specifically the max-line-length value in .flake8? Solutions that employs existing extensions are welcome....
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I don't mind if the occasional code line runs long. For example, the Shopify ruby standard allows lines of 120. But I want comments to be restricted to the first 78 lines or so. Is there any way in ...
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C-h v fill-column gives me 80. Pasting the lorem ipsum text in *scratch* (lines longer than 80) then going M-x fill-paragraph fills around column 66. The same in c-mode. In this mode, comment wraps ...
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Since fill-column-indicator is no longer actively maintained, how can I visualize the fill-column? The fill-column-indicator package was quite heavy and had compatibility issues with other packages. ...
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Python code now often is limited either to 80 columns, or to 88 columns. fci-mode allows drawing a vertical rule at a single column, but not two. I'd like to do something very similar in appearance ...
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Emacs and I agree on many things. That's good. However, there is one thing we disagree on – the default value for fill-column for different major modes. In order to alleviate this, I added the ...
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I have tons of LaTeX files with hard returns at column 80 like the test file below: \documentclass{article} \begin{document} Foo bar foobar Foo bar foobar Foo bar foobar Foo bar foobar Foo bar ...
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I want to write a function which equally add "-" character on each sides of bold text. The future line should be no longer then fill-column Input: - <1900-01-01 Mon> *XX century* <1999-12-...
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I'm helping a visually impaired user make viewing documentation in Emacs easier. He sets his font size such that he has about 40 columns of text in a full-screen frame with no splits (and he has ...
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Is there a reason that the default value of fill-column is 70? In my experience, everyone who cares about the value of fill-column prefers a default value of 80.
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I have tried: (add-hook 'git-commit-mode-hook '(lambda () (setq fill-column 72) (turn-on-auto-fill))) In both cases, auto-fill-...
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When using the fill-column-indicator package with org mode, I get wrong argument errors when exiting the source block editing window, issues with utf-8 character artefacts in source blocks exported to ...
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*Edit* fci is no longer supported, emacs-27 supports this feature natively. The are various known bugs with the fill-column indicator, there is one well known bug that occurs when the window is too ...
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How can I change the color of the fill-column-indicator and have the changes visible immediately? (defun my:change-fci-color (color) (setq fci-rule-color color) (fci-redraw-frame)) The previous ...
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I'm using Emacs (24.4+1-5) and org mode for writing prose, which means that I need some mechanism for line wrapping that just works, and preferably the same way each time. At the moment I'm using ...
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I use fill-column in my dot-Emacs. And I have the following setting: (turn-on-auto-fill) (set-fill-column 60) The result looks like this: Every time when the input exceeds columnnumber 60, it will ...
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In typography, there's a practice called 'protrusion' (or hanging punctuation) that allows certain symbols to hang off the end of the margin: I'd like to do the same thing for my text documents. Can ...
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