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Created February 15, 2012 19:09
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Progressively highlight long lines in Vim
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.vimrc
" Highlight lines longer than 80 characters as dark-red, lines longer than 90
" characters as a brighter red.
augroup vimrc_autocmds
autocmd BufEnter * highlight OverLength ctermbg=red guibg=#990000
autocmd BufEnter * highlight SortaOverLength ctermbg=red guibg=#330000
autocmd BufEnter * match SortaOverLength /\m\%>80v.*\%<91v/
autocmd BufEnter * 2match OverLength /\m\%>90v.*/
augroup END
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for OverLength use 124 and SortaOverLength 52 for similar colors in the terminal.

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