Request for Right-hand Vertical Rule

[msemack]

This is my first posting here, so please be kind. If someone has already made this suggestion, I apologize.

Everyone in our company has been using TextPad for a long time, and we all like it. However, there is one thing I really wish it had: Some sort of visual clue for when your lines of text have passed a certain length. I'm thinking something like a grey vertical line. This would be a visual clue only. It wouldn't affect text editing at all.

Some explanation: I work with a lot of text files, both program code and plain text. In general, I try to keep the line length under 79 characters (most of our files are read back on DOS systems). If there was some kind of right hand rule, I could see when the text has passed that length.

The current automatic word wrap/line break insertion features don't work for me. I open and edit lots of older text documents where line length wasn't enforced. If TextPad automatically changes the line endings, it would screw up the files.

Having the vertical line would be a nice visual hint that I need to hit "Enter", without actually forcing me to. Right now I look that the cursor position, which is nice, but not very convenient because I have to keep taking my eyes off the text.

Some other programming IDEs I use have this feature, and it's something I miss when I use TextPad.

To make this feature useful, you would need to have the line position be adjustable (based on number of columns), and also probably let users customize the color/style of the line.

What do you think?

[bveldkamp]

You got my vote, if you include a standard five-option poll (see http://www.textpad.info/forum/viewtopic ... 11&start=0 )

[trombo]

I used to use an editor that had a moveable vertical right rule. It was really useful when coding in C or assembler, as it provided a reference for which column to start line-by line comments in.

This would be a really nice feature