vim doesn't recognize columns beyond 72 with fortran90 code

Question

I am editing a fortran90 code with vim. Note that I\'m working with a *.f90 file, not *.f. vim doesn\'t recognize as legitimate code anything beyond column 72. This is an

Answer 1

This could be related to the 'synmaxcol' variable. If you run

:set synmaxcol?

In vim's command line, what do you get back? Setting this option higher might fix your issue. It's generally set low as vim can get laggy when syntax highlighting very long lines, such as those found in XML.