Pressing assigned key will toggle the vertical column
" Press F6 to toggle color column
nnoremap <silent><F6> :call <SID>ToggleColorColumn()<cr>
set colorcolumn=80
set tw=79 " width of document (used by gd)
set nowrap " don't automatically wrap on load
set fo-=t " don't automatically wrap text when typing
let s:color_column_old = 0
function! s:ToggleColorColumn()
if s:color_column_old == 0
let s:color_column_old = &colorcolumn
windo let &colorcolumn = 0
else
windo let &colorcolumn=s:color_column_old
let s:color_column_old = 0
endif
endfunction