How can I make emacs highlight lines that go over 80 chars?

Question

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 ov

Answer 1

Try highlight-80+.el. You can acquire it from here.

To install it, just add the following to your .emacs:

(add-to-list 'load-path "/path/to/highlight-80+")
(require 'highlight-80+)

You can then enable it via:

M-x highlight-80+-mode