Limiting a match in vim to certain filetypes?

Question

I have the following in my .vimrc to highlight lines longer than 80 chars:

highlight OverLength ctermbg=red ctermfg=white guibg=#592929
match OverLength /\\%         


        

Answer 1

Sounds like you might want something like:

autocmd FileType html,xml highlight OverLength ctermbg=red ctermfg=white guibg=#592929
autocmd FileType html,xml match OverLength /\%81v.*/

Seems to work for me anyway :-)