This confuses MacVim's scrollbar. And I quite don't like them
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A:
You can't disable them, but you can change your colorscheme such that the NonText highlight group is colored the same as the Normal highlight group. However, this affects more than just the end of document tildes.
I doubt that it's actually "confusing" MacVim's scrollbar and if it is, then that's a bug in the patching that MacVim does.
jamessan
2010-09-28 13:20:46
I think his confusion arises from the full screen height of `~` characters, which lets you always scroll down until one line of text is visible.
jleedev
2010-09-28 13:22:10
Indeed, jleedev nailed it. For instance, look here : http://i.imgur.com/8f4u6.png . There is a scrollbar displayed, that lets me scroll so that only "line four" is visible". Which doesn't make sense, really.
Ecco
2010-09-28 13:34:25
As jleedev described, it does make sense since you can scroll the buffer until the last line is the only thing displayed. At that point, the scrollbar will be at the bottom of its channel.
jamessan
2010-09-28 14:43:25
+5
A:
As jamessan said, you can’t disable them. The scrolling behavior isn’t specific to MacVim, either — it works the same way in the terminal and in gvim:
Instead of seeing this as a problem, what you should do is learn to see this as part of Vim’s flexibility. For example, you can use the zt command to scroll the current line to the top of the screen, regardless of where in the file it is. This can make it easier to write macros that do some work and then scroll back to where you were. The commands <C-E> and <C-Y> are made simpler because of this, as is the 'scrolloffset' option.
If you must, retrain your brain to think of Vim’s scrollbar as mapping to which line is on top, instead of which screenful is visible.
jleedev
2010-09-28 14:22:11