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Vim pencil hides/removes colorcolumn
In my vimrc I have:
set colorcolumn=80,120
Without vim-pencil turned on I see columns 80 and 120 highlighted as I would expect:
But, after running :call pencil#init() the highlighting on the columns disappears:
I can manually run :set colorcolumn=80,120 to restore the columns, but I'd rather not have to do that every time. In my vimrc I have:
autocmd FileType text,mkd.markdown,markdown,mkd call pencil#init()
But if I try setting colorcolum after pencil#init() it doesn't work:
autocmd FileType text,mkd.markdown,markdown,mkd call set colorcolumn=80,120
Any idea what I should do to ensure colorcolumns are always shown without manual intervention? Ideally it would be nice if vim-pencil did not affect them at all. Happy to contribute if there is something in vim-pencil that needs to be changed to accommodate this.
This appears to be hard coded here:
https://github.com/reedes/vim-pencil/blob/236380f1afcc1df10ae78cbf2c6e958d29183eaa/autoload/pencil.vim#L266-L268
The logic seems to be that because there are extra characters added an the start of wrapped lines the color column does not actually correspond to that column in the actual text.
We could easily add some sort of preference toggle to not disable this, but before we do that maybe you can give some input on when this would be useful. Perhaps only disabling it in soft wrap mode and letting it alone in hard wrap mode would make sense. Thoughts?
@alerque if it doesn't align as expected, would it be feasible to figure out the correct offset, and then adjust colorcolumn as necessary?
As far as I know, no. The colorcolumn is set at the buffer/pane level and the problem is some individual lines don't align with their peers. I've never seen a "ragged" color column. I suppose it might be possible if you want to look into it, but my guess is it's going to be all or nothing.
I ended up solving by using the Goyo callbacks to toggle vim-pencil - https://github.com/Stratus3D/dotfiles/commit/7b5657366a27e736a65a1001cf99b3af7a526a1e