Question

I use:

set scrolloff=10

in my ~/.vimrc so that search results don’t annoyingly appear at the end of the vim screen.

This also means that I cannot edit the top 10 and bottom 10 lines of the screen. Is there a way to (mildly) darken these rows so I ‘feel’ that they are off editing limits until I scroll further?

The real kicker is that scrolloff is not in effect at the beginning and end of a file (because then one cannot ever edit those lines), and ideally the greying out should know this as well.

Answer 1

No, there is no such option in Vim.