Expand highlighting to full view width

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When describing a hilight, I find that the hilight ends at the end of the text 
line.  I'd love to see an option where the hilighting extends for the full 
width of the the view and not just the width of the line in the view.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 29 Mar 2014 at 8:49