[Geany] About the long line marker

[Enrico Tröger]

On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 12:50:57 +0100, Frank Lanitz <linux at partysoke.de>
wrote:

> On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 08:45:06 -0300
> Damián Viano <geany at damianv.com.ar> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 12:38:51AM +0200, std05073 at di.uoa.gr wrote:
> > > What is the reason of existence of the vertical line , parallel to
> > > the sidebar, in the editor area? Does it influence the code?
> > > Can I alter the distance between it and the sidebar? cause the
> > > distance is 32 caracthers right now and seems to me a bit
> > > annoying.
> >
> > 	That's the 'long line marker', you can change all about it
> > in Edit->Preferences->Editor->Long line marker. It's there to mark a
> > specific line length, useful i.e. to keep your mails nicely wrapped
> > at <80 columns.
>
> But it is only usefull, if you us proportional fonts ;)
You can also use non-proportional fonts and setting the long line
marker to background and not line.

It doesn't influence the code in any way, it's just a visual help for
you to quickly see how long the lines are.

Regards,
Enrico

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