Hello,
I am new to Geany and looked for most of an hour through the online help and by Googling and can't find an answer:
I'm sure that the vertical green line that appears in the Geany code window several inches from the left margin is an aid to many users, but I personally find it distracting and can't find any answers on how to hide it. If someone could tell me what it is even for, and particularly, how to hide it, I would greatly appreciate it!
Thanks very much!
Carl Cosgrove Monroe, WA
Check to make sure you have the latest version :-) Its been there since .16 (when I started using it). To hide it, Choose edit, Preferences, Then editor, display. About half way down, there's /Long Line Marker/. You can do a couple things with the available radio buttons, but the one you want is disabled.
On 2/12/2010 5:39 PM, Carl Cosgrove wrote:
Hello,
I am new to Geany and looked for most of an hour through the online help and by Googling and can't find an answer:
I'm sure that the vertical green line that appears in the Geany code window several inches from the left margin is an aid to many users, but I personally find it distracting and can't find any answers on how to hide it. If someone could tell me what it is even for, and particularly, how to hide it, I would greatly appreciate it!
Thanks very much!
Carl Cosgrove Monroe, WA
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On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:39:01 -0800 (PST) Carl Cosgrove carlcosgrove@yahoo.com wrote:
and particularly, how to hide it
Edit->Preferences->Editor->Display->Long line marker->Type:Disabled
-- Mockey
Hi Carl, list
On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:39:01 -0800 (PST) Carl Cosgrove carlcosgrove@yahoo.com wrote:
I'm sure that the vertical green line that appears in the Geany code window several inches from the left margin is an aid to many users, but I personally find it distracting and can't find any answers on how to hide it. If someone could tell me what it is even for, and particularly, how to hide it, I would greatly appreciate it!
As everybody just mentioned, how to get rid of it, just one sentence about the sense of this ;)
As the name of options is already saying, its the long line marker, which is showing you when you line is getting too long for your configuration as on most cases you just want to have a line length of 72, 80 or maybe 100 chars. If you have a wide screen monitor or using a high resolution you might see up to 150 or even more chars in one line without breaking which might is not fair to people you share your files with.
Hope, makes things more clear ;)
Cheers, Frank
Am Samstag, den 13.02.2010, 17:28 +0100 schrieb Frank Lanitz:
Hi Carl, list
On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:39:01 -0800 (PST) Carl Cosgrove carlcosgrove@yahoo.com wrote:
I'm sure that the vertical green line that appears in the Geany code window several inches from the left margin is an aid to many users, but I personally find it distracting and can't find any answers on how to hide it. If someone could tell me what it is even for, and particularly, how to hide it, I would greatly appreciate it!
As everybody just mentioned, how to get rid of it, just one sentence about the sense of this ;)
As the name of options is already saying, its the long line marker, which is showing you when you line is getting too long for your configuration as on most cases you just want to have a line length of 72, 80 or maybe 100 chars. If you have a wide screen monitor or using a high resolution you might see up to 150 or even more chars in one line without breaking which might is not fair to people you share your files with.
An additional important aspect is, that there are many users or developers working with terminals which are limited to 80 chars width (or even another value). Sourcecode with lines longer than 80 chars really wouldn't look that nice and the guys would have many problems while developing.
There also is for example a limit by RPM when writing specfiles for packages. It's not possible to write a description for a package longer than 79 chars and rpmbuild or rpmlint will claim that. In such and similar cases the long line marker is a really helpful feature. :)
Regards, Dominic