I know there are solutions to making emacs show the 80 line column, but I don’t want that sort of visual disturbance. I’d just like to make it highlight a line if it’s over 80 characters.
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I know there are solutions to making emacs show the 80 line column, but I don’t want that sort of visual disturbance. I’d just like to make it highlight a line if it’s over 80 characters.
Another easy option is to run
highlight-lines-matching-regexpon the expression.\{81\}.Every line with 81 characters or more will be highlighted with the color of your choice.