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dynamic-ruler

Emacs package to show a dynamic ruler that can be freely moved around the buffer, for measuring and positioning text.

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dynamic-ruler for Emacs

This is an Emacs package to show a dynamic ruler that can be freely moved around the buffer, for measuring and positioning text.

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Installation

Manual

Download dynamic-ruler.el to your emacs library and add this line to your .emacs file:

(require 'dynamic-ruler)

Package.el

Dynamic ruler is available in MELPA. You can install it with:

M-x install-package dynammic-ruler

Bugs & Improvements

Please report any problems that you find on the project issue tracker. If you've added some improvements and you want them included upstream don't hesitate to send me a patch or even better - a GitHub pull request.

Copyright and License

Licensed under the GNU GPL version 3 or later, see LICENSE for more information.

Note

This ruler is based on the popup-ruler by Rick Bielawski, which in turn was inspired by the one in fortran-mode but code-wise bears no resemblance.