[Geany] vertical green line in Geany code window

[Carl Cosgrove]

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

[Oliver Krystal]

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.

Post by Carl Cosgrove
Hello,
I am new to Geany and looked for most of an hour through the online
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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[Carl Cosgrove]

THANK YOU! PROBLEM SOLVED!
Carl Cosgrove

--- On Fri, 2/12/10, Oliver Krystal <***@gmail.com> wrote:

From: Oliver Krystal <***@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Geany] vertical green line in Geany code window
To: "Geany general discussion list" <***@uvena.de>
Date: Friday, February 12, 2010, 3:49 PM







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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[Andreas Mokros]

On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:39:01 -0800 (PST)

Post by Carl Cosgrove
and particularly, how to hide it

Edit->Preferences->Editor->Display->Long line marker->Type:Disabled

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Mockey

[Frank Lanitz]

Hi Carl, list

On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:39:01 -0800 (PST)

Post by Carl Cosgrove
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

[Dominic Hopf]

Post by Frank Lanitz
Hi Carl, list
On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:39:01 -0800 (PST)

Post by Carl Cosgrove
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