How to setup a line length marker in vim/gvim?
Problem
Some GUI text editors have a vertical line which serves as line length marker (it helps keeping lines shorter than 80 chars in source code files). Is is possible to have something similar in vim/gvim? I know about ruler vim option, but it is not very handy to follow it visually on a big screen. Edit: when googling for "colorcolumn" to learn more, I have found that this question is a duplicate of https://stackoverflow.com/questions/235439/vim-80-column-layout-concerns
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Fix for: How to setup a line length marker in vim/gvim?
Just execute this You can also prefix the argument with or to put the marker that many columns to the left or right of , and it accepts a comma-separated list of columns. I think the option is only in Vim 7.3. See
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