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VIM 7.3 Highlight long lines

VIM 7.3 introduced the “colorcolumn” option, which highlights a specific column. PEP8 recommends a maximum line length of 79 characters for Python code, so setting colorcolumn to 80:

set colorcolumn=80

will give you a vertical line at the 80th column:

See “:help colorcolumn” for more information.