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" visual configuration
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" set a colorscheme
silent! colorscheme solarized
set background=dark
highlight Normal ctermbg=black
hi Normal guibg=NONE ctermbg=NONE

" do soft wrap of text but not in the middle of words
set wrap linebreak nolist

" don't do hard wraps in any files
set textwidth=0

" add a color column at the 80 char
set colorcolumn=80

" spelling highlight needs to be done after the colorscheme load                
highlight SpellBad term=underline cterm=underline 

" enable English spellchecking in markdown files
autocmd FileType markdown setlocal spell
autocmd FileType markdown setlocal spelllang=en