Question

By default when you scroll down to the end of a displayed buffer in a vim window, you can scroll until the last file line is on first line of the vim display area. All other lines of the display area are marked with “~” characters.
Is there a configuration to stop scrolling when the last file line is at the bottom of the vim window?

Edit:
To be more precise this behavior only apply to mouse wheel scroll or PgDown key navigation that fill the screen with those non-existant line marks. I the cursor is moved line by line using the down arrow key, it stops correctly at the last file line.

Answer 1

Simply zb to align the current line to the bottom of the window.

E.g. Gzb

Not surpisingly there is a family of related panning motions:

• zj down
• zk up
• zt top
• zb bottom
• zz center (middle)
• zz center (middle)

For completeness:

• zl / zL vertical pan to the right
• zh / zH vertical pan to the left

Also, have a look at scrolloff

I use

:set scrolloff=2

to always keep a minimum buffer of 2 lines before or after the current cursor line. This makes these panning motions almost magical. I spend all day browsing code bases using nothing but

• paging C-d/C-u, hjkl, and frequent panning relocations with (mostly) zz
• navigating }/{
• ctags for all other navigation needs