Why whitespace denotation of blocks doesn't work.

[David Bolen]

Courageous <jkraska1 at san.rr.com> writes:

> It would be nice if an editor had a vertical guide, much as some
> of the drawing programs do. You can click and drag the guide around,
> leaving a vertical line drawn across your editor, allowing you to
> move up and down in the file to see what matches that indentation
> level.

It's not really a visual guide, but Emacs can set set a goal column
(C-x C-n, C-u C-x C-n to clear), then just moving up and down the file
will try to keep you in the column (unless its past the end of the
current line), so you can pretty easily move up and down and see what
lines up with that column.

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