diff --git a/.config/vim/ftplugin/man.vim b/.config/vim/ftplugin/man.vim
index 9f0da57..08f4736 100644
--- a/.config/vim/ftplugin/man.vim
+++ b/.config/vim/ftplugin/man.vim
@@ -1 +1,7 @@
 setlocal nospell
+
+" man(1) will assume it can use the full width of the terminal when
+" hard-wrapping the lines. When signcolumn is enabled the width is one cell
+" smaller and thus, lines that have a character in the last column will be
+" wrapped by vim (i.e. almost all of them).
+setlocal signcolumn=no