Bug#916392: please provide a column marker mechanism

2019-03-09 Thread Benno Schulenberg
With some changes, the patch was pushed to master. The option was renamed to --guidestripe (-J) as -e had meanwhile been taken. The default color is simply reverse video, like the rest of nano's interface, which works fine. The color can be changed, though, with the nanorc option 'set stripeco

Bug#916392: please provide a column marker mechanism

2019-01-02 Thread Arturo Borrero Gonzalez
On 1/1/19 4:58 PM, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > Attached is a version with a working --edge option, > plus some other buglets ironed out. > > Benno LGTM! thanks.

Bug#916392: please provide a column marker mechanism

2019-01-01 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Attached is a version with a working --edge option, plus some other buglets ironed out. Benno From 7f2d295b6e85bec215d355c2dd347fda019b7e22 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Benno Schulenberg Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2018 19:57:30 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] possible new feature: add option --edgecolumn that s

Bug#916392: please provide a column marker mechanism

2018-12-31 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Please try the attached patch. Use --edge= to show a colored bar at the desired column. Benno From 119491bbdedf2c727135e5e331f0714d94644351 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Benno Schulenberg Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2018 19:57:30 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] new feature: add option --edgecolumn that shows a v

Bug#916392: please provide a column marker mechanism

2018-12-17 Thread Arturo Borrero Gonzalez
On 12/17/18 7:55 PM, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > > Hi Arturo, > > Interesting request. But... a vertical bar across the screen is > hard to make -- it would mean having to extend shorter lines with > whitespace to reach the desired column. What is easier to make > is to color any text that excee

Bug#916392: please provide a column marker mechanism

2018-12-17 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Hi Arturo, Interesting request. But... a vertical bar across the screen is hard to make -- it would mean having to extend shorter lines with whitespace to reach the desired column. What is easier to make is to color any text that exceeds a certain column. Attached is a proof of concept. The "

Bug#916392: please provide a column marker mechanism

2018-12-13 Thread Arturo Borrero Gonzalez
Package: nano Version: 3.2-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: upstream I use the nano editor daily :-) Thanks for your work, it's really appreciated. A handly option to have while writting code (and other files as well actually) is to get a column marker. Let's say you want to do write more than 80 char