Re: colorcolumn rows

On Jan 24, 8:27 am, Gary Johnson <garyj...@spocom.com> wrote:
> On 2012-01-23, sinbad wrote:
> > On Jan 23, 12:51 pm, "Christian Brabandt" wrote:
> > > On Sun, January 22, 2012 4:10 pm, sinbad wrote:
> > > > im using vim 7.3, i learnt about the colorcolumn option.
> > > > is it possible to color a column only for certain number of
> > > > rows ?
>
> > > No. You can use the matchadd() functions for this, e.g.
> > > call matchadd('TODO', '\%>10l\%10v\%<20l')
>
> > > which would match virtual column 10 on lines 11-19.
>
> > > regards,
> > > Christian
>
> > is it possible to highlight the column that is not present, for
> > example in
> > the above matchadd call, the highlighting won't happen if
> > there is no character at column 10, is it possible to highlight
> > even though there is nothing there to highlight.
>
> No.  That's what 'colorcolumn' is for.
>
> Regards,
> Gary

but, i can't use colorcolumn to highlight only certain number of rows
right!

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