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Re: OT: column 72 in mutt with xterm && vim



Hi Matthias,

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 10:12:29AM +0100, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> Well, is there some way to draw a magic vertical line in the xterm or
> 'vim' in column 72?

There isn't explicit support for it in Vim, as far as I know.  However,
I've discovered that Vim's window borders work just as well, so what I
usually do is open a new "dummy" window in Vim with ":vertical new",
then resize the window with the actual content using ":vertical resize
72".