Matt Wozniski wrote: > 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).
Yes, I read about the listchars option several times and yet, I did not see anything that would help regarding this issue. This probably means that I missed something important. I will review in the morning and get back to you if I can't figure it out. Thanks, Gen-Paul. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
