VimTrick: Column Highlighting
Easily track vertical alignment
Whether writing prose or writing software, sometimes it can be handy to see how text is aligned vertically inside your file. This is useful when trying to track matching indents in a software project, especially for languages like python or haml where blocks are are opened and closed with indentation level alone.
Vim has a feature for this called cursorcolumn. You can enable and disable it with a command:
:set cursorcolumn- Enable column highlighting:set cuc- Alias for the same:set nocursorcolumn- Disable column highlighting:set nocuc- Alias for the same:hi CursorColumn ctermbg=3- Change the color to yellow
Try different numbers for different colors
Check out the brief gif showing some of these in action:
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":set cuc!" also works ... and in general the ":set foo!" pattern can disable whatever ":set foo" enables (or at least this seems to be the case in my use of vim).