Are you in the terminal?  You didn't set ctermbg.

highlight ColorColumn guibg=Black ctermbg=0

Justin M. Keyes
On Feb 10, 2014 9:43 AM, "brandon wallace" <nodn...@gmx.us> wrote:

> I have these options in my .vimrc.
>
> set colorcolumn=80
>
> let &colorcolumn=join(range(81,244), ',')
>
> highlight ColorColumn guibg=Black
>
>
> My background is all red after the 80th column.
> How do I get the background to be black after the 80th column instead of
> solid red?
>
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