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Try this:

:match ErrorMsg '\%>80v.\+'

It will highlight text beyond 80 characters, you can replace '80' with whatever wrap-width you have. However, it will only highlight the characters that exceed the width, and then only on lines that are actually longer than the width.

Check http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Highlight_long_lines for more info, but they all pretty much accomplish the same thing.

sykora
Yes! That works well; I wasn't wrapping my head around the fact that this is a way to "highlight long lines" (which your link is the first hit for).
davetron5000