I use vim a lot, and I use it even more now since my work uses it as well. One thing my boss really loves, and I kinda hate, is an 80 character line limit. I used to just commit style breaking code, but now I can have vim yell at me when lines are too long, thanks to this useful post over at Stack Overflow.

Just add the following to your ~/.vimrc and you're good to go.

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

/Nat

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