Is it possible to not display a ~ for blank lines in Vim?
This confuses Mac Vim’s scrollbar, and I quite don’t like these tildes.
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Is it possible to not display a ~ for blank lines in Vim?
This confuses Mac Vim’s scrollbar, and I quite don’t like these tildes.
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.