Fuzzy Logic wrote:
> Say no more. Everyone has off days.

Not an off day.. I love being in that kind of mood.. Kick the dog.. beat 
up the wife.. make a nuisance of myself on friendly forums..

:-)

> For what it's worth, even though I wouldn't use the feature, I do
> think that making it configurable would be nice.

Others might call it "bloat". :-)

It's a rather interesting area,though. I have a feeling the "~" belongs 
somewhere in vim's reptilian past. I haven't seen anything in the manual 
that indicates that they can in any way be customized and with a program 
as flexible as vim, I found this rather surprising.

Maybe this phobia of mine came to a head because I was working on the 
256-color terminal color scheme to end them all and I felt that the 
presence of these tildes did not do my artistic talents justice :-)

But honestly, I've never liked them, and maybe my feeling that the user 
should have the option to not visualize them is not totally irrational.

The more I think about it, they visualize something that's not visible 
in the first place. Seeing where the buffer ends respective to my 
display is not something I need all the time, whether I am coding, 
documenting, or replying to an email.

But I certainly do not advocate getting rid of them altogether. I'm not 
even asking that anything be done about this issue, for that matter. I 
just feel that visualizing where my buffer ends should be optional, 
same as EOL's. Even the way I use vim, which is likely far from optimal, 
there are times when it comes in handy.

Gen-Paul.



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