Re: colorcolumn rows

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

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