diff --git a/configuration.nix b/configuration.nix
index 8420bbf..de778d5 100644
--- a/configuration.nix
+++ b/configuration.nix
@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ inputs: let
         };
         smartcolumn = {
           enable = true;
-          columnAt.languages = {
+          setupOpts.custom_colorcolumn = {
             # this is a freeform module, it's `buftype = int;` for configuring column position
             nix = 110;
             ruby = 120;
diff --git a/modules/ui/smartcolumn/config.nix b/modules/ui/smartcolumn/config.nix
index 48b47d2..8aff4b0 100644
--- a/modules/ui/smartcolumn/config.nix
+++ b/modules/ui/smartcolumn/config.nix
@@ -4,9 +4,8 @@
   ...
 }: let
   inherit (lib.modules) mkIf;
-  inherit (lib.strings) concatStringsSep;
-  inherit (lib.nvim.lua) attrsetToLuaTable;
   inherit (lib.nvim.dag) entryAnywhere;
+  inherit (lib.nvim.lua) toLuaObject;
 
   cfg = config.vim.ui.smartcolumn;
 in {
@@ -15,13 +14,7 @@ in {
       startPlugins = ["smartcolumn"];
 
     vim.luaConfigRC.smartcolumn = entryAnywhere ''
-      require("smartcolumn").setup({
-        colorcolumn = "${toString cfg.showColumnAt}",
-        -- { "help", "text", "markdown", "NvimTree", "alpha"},
-        disabled_filetypes = { ${concatStringsSep ", " (map (x: "\"" + x + "\"") cfg.disabledFiletypes)} },
-        custom_colorcolumn = ${attrsetToLuaTable cfg.columnAt.languages},
-        scope = "file",
-      })
+      require("smartcolumn").setup(${toLuaObject cfg.setupOpts})
     '';
   };
 }
diff --git a/modules/ui/smartcolumn/smartcolumn.nix b/modules/ui/smartcolumn/smartcolumn.nix
index bac4c7d..37d7a94 100644
--- a/modules/ui/smartcolumn/smartcolumn.nix
+++ b/modules/ui/smartcolumn/smartcolumn.nix
@@ -1,31 +1,41 @@
 {lib, ...}: let
   inherit (lib.options) mkOption mkEnableOption literalExpression;
-  inherit (lib.types) nullOr int str submodule attrsOf either listOf;
+  inherit (lib.types) nullOr int str attrsOf either listOf;
+  inherit (lib.modules) mkRenamedOptionModule;
+  inherit (lib.nvim.types) mkPluginSetupOption;
 in {
+  imports = let
+    renamedSetupOpt = oldPath: newPath:
+      mkRenamedOptionModule (["vim" "ui" "smartcolumn"] ++ oldPath) (["vim" "ui" "smartcolumn" "setupOpts"] ++ newPath);
+  in [
+    (renamedSetupOpt ["disabledFiletypes"] ["disabled_filetypes"])
+    (renamedSetupOpt ["showColumnAt"] ["colorcolumn"])
+    (renamedSetupOpt ["columnAt" "languages"] ["custom_colorcolumn"])
+  ];
+
   options.vim.ui.smartcolumn = {
     enable = mkEnableOption "line length indicator";
 
-    showColumnAt = mkOption {
-      type = nullOr int;
-      default = 120;
-      description = "The position at which the column will be displayed. Set to null to disable";
-    };
+    setupOpts = mkPluginSetupOption "smartcolumn.nvim" {
+      colorcolumn = mkOption {
+        type = nullOr (either str (listOf str));
+        default = "120";
+        description = "The position at which the column will be displayed. Set to null to disable";
+      };
 
-    disabledFiletypes = mkOption {
-      type = listOf str;
-      default = ["help" "text" "markdown" "NvimTree" "alpha"];
-      description = "The filetypes smartcolumn will be disabled for.";
-    };
+      disabled_filetypes = mkOption {
+        type = listOf str;
+        default = ["help" "text" "markdown" "NvimTree" "alpha"];
+        description = "The filetypes smartcolumn will be disabled for.";
+      };
 
-    columnAt = {
-      languages = mkOption {
+      custom_colorcolumn = mkOption {
         description = "The position at which smart column should be displayed for each individual buffer type";
-        type = submodule {
-          freeformType = attrsOf (either int (listOf int));
-        };
+        type = attrsOf (either int (listOf int));
+        default = {};
 
         example = literalExpression ''
-          vim.ui.smartcolumn.columnAt.languages = {
+          vim.ui.smartcolumn.setupOpts.custom_colorcolumn = {
             nix = 110;
             ruby = 120;
             java = 130;