diff --git a/vim/.vimrc b/vim/.vimrc
index 3381eab..ebe775c 100644
--- a/vim/.vimrc
+++ b/vim/.vimrc
@@ -170,8 +170,10 @@ set visualbell
 " Disable bell completely by resetting the visual bell's escape sequence
 set t_vb=
 
-" Color the 80th column
-set colorcolumn=80
+" Use 80 columns
+set textwidth=80
+" Highlight when after textwidth
+set colorcolumn=+1
 " Show whitespace
 set list
 " Show a tab as an arrow, trailing spaces as ¤, non-breaking spaces as dots