{"id":217,"date":"2011-08-23T11:03:50","date_gmt":"2011-08-23T15:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=217"},"modified":"2011-12-27T12:27:19","modified_gmt":"2011-12-27T17:27:19","slug":"emacs-ruler-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=217","title":{"rendered":"Emacs Ruler Mode"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sometimes it&#8217;s convenient to have a ruler on your Emacs screen. Not often but sometimes. For example, it can be useful for lining things up in <code>artist-mode<\/code>. Emacs has a very nice ruler that, among other things, tracks were the point is on the line. <\/p>\n<p> You can toggle it on and off with \u3010<span class=\"key\">Meta<\/span>+<span class=\"key\">x<\/span>\u3011 <code>ruler-mode<\/code>. Often times you (or at least I) want to turn it on for just a second to check something so you can turn it on and then type \u3010<span class=\"key\">Meta<\/span>+<span class=\"key\">x<\/span> <span class=\"key\">Meta<\/span>+<span class=\"key\">p<\/span>\u3011 to bring the command up again to turn it off. <\/p>\n<p> This isn&#8217;t a command you will use a lot but when you need it, it comes in very handy. If you forget its name, \u3010<span class=\"key\">Ctrl<\/span>+<span class=\"key\">h<\/span> <span class=\"key\">f<\/span>\u3011 <code>ruler<\/code> will bring up the on-line documentation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes it&#8217;s convenient to have a ruler on your Emacs screen. Not often but sometimes. For example, it can be useful for lining things up in artist-mode. Emacs has a very nice ruler that, among other things, tracks were the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=217\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-emacs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":503,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions\/503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}