On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Patrick Gen-Paul wrote: > As I see it, the purpose of these tildes is to make the user aware of > the possible presence of blank lines at the end of the buffer. Same as > the dollar sign that reveals the eol character, thereby signaling the > possible presence of trailing blanks or other non printable characters. > I feel that they should only be available in ":set list" mode. I > certainly do not need to be constantly reminded of where the file > actually ends. As an example of a more rational reason why I do not like > them, the font that I use is quite small and when I am entering text on > line one of a buffer, the tilde on line two makes it more difficult to > read what I have typed.
Are you aware of the 'listchars' option? You might find that displaying trailing spaces using a special character (which isn't highlighted with the NonText group) suits your needs better than displaying the $ (which is highlighted with the NonText group). ~Matt --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
