Re: How to highlight the right-margin column?

[Eric Pement]

sandipchitale@yahoo.com (Sandip Chitale) wrote in message 
news:<b607d812.0303260858.e290467@posting.google.com>...
> try this package:
> 
> http://www.cpqd.com.br/~vinicius/emacs/

    I don't see anything on this page that helps me.
> 
> or
> 
> http://groups.google.com/groups?q=sandip+group:gnu.emacs.sources&hl=en&lr=lang_en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=Kykh7.6465%24sa.2682126%40news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com&rnum=1

   I installed this script in my .emacs file, and when I did,
something unexpected happened. Of course, that may come because
I cannot read eLisp that well.

   I got a new command, M-x highlight-column (which I didn't see
embedded anywhere in the code). This highlights the text on the
current column where the point is located FOR THAT SCREENFUL.
But if you page-up or page-down, there is no highlighting on the
screen. The background highlighting stays persistent only on the
lines which composed the screen when highlight-column was first
invoked.

   Is that the intended behavior? If so, it's not exactly what
I was looking for. I want the fill-column to be highlighted
regardless of where I am in the file, including spaces which
do not contain any actual text. But thanks for helping out. If
I could get a particular column to be highlighted throughout
the file, that would be great. TIA.

Eric Pement