Remove long line hightlight; turned out to be annoying; Add mappings for easy highlighting of word under cursor; nice way to highlight things without having to search for it moving your cursor.

Author: widox

vimrc

@@ -50,9 +50,6 @@ set incsearch       " show my search when typing
 " wait less time for command sequences
 set timeoutlen=500
 
-" Highlight long lines (soft limit: 80, hard limit: 100)
-:au BufRead *.php,*.py let w:m1=matchadd('Search', '\%<101v.\%>80v', -1)
-:au BufRead *.php,*.py let w:m2=matchadd('ErrorMsg', '\%>100v.\+', -1)
 :au BufRead *.php,*.py set formatoptions-=t
 :au BufRead *.php,*.py set textwidth=79    " keep it < 80!
 
@@ -269,3 +266,56 @@ endfunction
 command! Phpcs execute RunPhpcs()
 autocmd BufRead *.php map <leader>M :execute RunPhpcs()<CR>
 
+" highlight stuff taken from https://github.com/sjl/dotfiles/blob/master/vim/vimrc
+" }}}
+" Highlight Word {{{
+"
+" This mini-plugin provides a few mappings for highlighting words temporarily.
+"
+" Sometimes you're looking at a hairy piece of code and would like a certain
+" word or two to stand out temporarily.  You can search for it, but that only
+" gives you one color of highlighting.  Now you can use <leader>N where N is
+" a number from 1-6 to highlight the current word in a specific color.
+
+function! HiInterestingWord(n) " {{{
+    " Save our location.
+    normal! mz
+
+    " Yank the current word into the z register.
+    normal! "zyiw
+
+    " Calculate an arbitrary match ID.  Hopefully nothing else is using it.
+    let mid = 86750 + a:n
+
+    " Clear existing matches, but don't worry if they don't exist.
+    silent! call matchdelete(mid)
+
+    " Construct a literal pattern that has to match at boundaries.
+    let pat = '\V\<' . escape(@z, '\') . '\>'
+
+    " Actually match the words.
+    call matchadd("InterestingWord" . a:n, pat, 1, mid)
+
+    " Move back to our original location.
+    normal! `z
+endfunction " }}}
+
+" Mappings {{{
+nnoremap <silent> <leader>1 :call HiInterestingWord(1)<cr>
+nnoremap <silent> <leader>2 :call HiInterestingWord(2)<cr>
+nnoremap <silent> <leader>3 :call HiInterestingWord(3)<cr>
+nnoremap <silent> <leader>4 :call HiInterestingWord(4)<cr>
+nnoremap <silent> <leader>5 :call HiInterestingWord(5)<cr>
+nnoremap <silent> <leader>6 :call HiInterestingWord(6)<cr>
+" }}}
+
+" Default Highlights {{{
+hi def InterestingWord1 guifg=#000000 ctermfg=16 guibg=#ffa724 ctermbg=214
+hi def InterestingWord2 guifg=#000000 ctermfg=16 guibg=#aeee00 ctermbg=154
+hi def InterestingWord3 guifg=#000000 ctermfg=16 guibg=#8cffba ctermbg=121
+hi def InterestingWord4 guifg=#000000 ctermfg=16 guibg=#b88853 ctermbg=137
+hi def InterestingWord5 guifg=#000000 ctermfg=16 guibg=#ff9eb8 ctermbg=211
+hi def InterestingWord6 guifg=#000000 ctermfg=16 guibg=#ff2c4b ctermbg=195
+" }}}
+
+noremap <silent> <leader>N :noh<cr>:call clearmatches()<cr>