Alexey, Tue 2012-02-14 @ 12:12:28-0800: > I wanted to ask this in user list first, but have not yet received a > response to my subscription request. > > I've found no obvious way to enable highlighting in colorcolumn's. > > I have set colorcolumn=79,80, and tried to set highlighting of > trailing whitespace with > > syntax match WhitespaceAtEOL /\s\+$/ > > When the trailing whitespace happens in columns 79 or 80, the > background color does not change, it stays ColorColumn, and i do not > see how to override this. > > I think the highlighting set with colorcolumn should have the lowest > priority, or at least there should be an option to set its priority.
I think 'colorcolumn' is like 'cursorline', in that its special highlighting is hard-coded to take precedence over most "background" syntax highlighting. I normally have 'cursorline' turned on, and my `ctermbg=...` highlighting never shows through the cursorline highlighting. It's irritating, but I think it would take patching Vim to change it, and I haven't yet been sufficiently motivated to dig into that.
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