Is it possible to have (at the same time) colorcolumns in vim 7.3 with different colors, using the new colorcolumn option?

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Vim 7.3 has a new option, colorcolumn.

I can set a colorcolumn color:

:hi ColorColumn ctermbg=lightgrey guibg=lightgrey

I can have how many colorcolumns I want, but I would like to know if it's possible to have two colorcolumns, each one of them with different colors. Anyone knows if this is possible, or a hack to achieve it using only this new colorcolumn feature?

score 6 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:48

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Don't think that is possible, but you can sort-of fake it using the proposal in this post Vim 80 column layout concerns

highlight OverLength ctermbg=red ctermfg=white guibg=#592929
match OverLength /\%81v.\+/

I.e. use colorcolumns but for the one farthest to the right, highlight everything exceeding that using the above.

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answered Jun 07 '11 at 18:33

Fredrik Pihl

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This seems to only apply to the rightmost pane, interestingly. – Charlie Gorichanaz Aug 01 '18 at 17:57

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:06

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I couldn't find a way. Fredrik's answer is a hack not using colorcolumn, but doesn't do exactly what I want.

I did a :h match and found the exactly line I need:

match OverLength /\%<73v.\%>72v/

...and, of course, the colorcolumn.

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answered Jun 21 '11 at 17:32

Somebody still uses you MS-DOS

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Unfortunately, this solution makes vim run pretty slow on moderately-sized (100K) files. – cydonian Oct 06 '16 at 16:43

Is it possible to have (at the same time) colorcolumns in vim 7.3 with different colors, using the new colorcolumn option?

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