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

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