if has('syntax')
syntax enable
+" Don't highlight more than 200 columns as I normally don't have that long
+" lines and they slow down syntax coloring. Thanks to Derek Wyatt
+" (http://www.derekwyatt.org/vim/the-vimrc-file/).
+ set synmaxcol=200
+
" Highlight lines longer than 78 characters. Thanks to Tony Mechelynck
" <antoine.mechelynck@gmail.com> from the Vim mailing list. It can easily be
" disabled when necessary with :2match (in Vim >= 700).