I am not sure what the difference is but mine just goes page up and page down without showing characters
On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 9:04 AM, BPJ <[email protected]> wrote: > 2014-06-07 10:39, James Freer skrev: > >> I am trying out gvim and vim for use as a prose editor for writing >> - rather than programmer coding. >> >> Whilst doing pgup and pgdn one gets ~ and @ on the screen and I >> was wondering if it was possible to remove them. >> > > Not criticism, just bemused: why would those be (more) annoying > when editing prose than when editing code? I can see if a line > continues beyond the right edge of the window, and distinguish > between end-of-file and a possible multitude of blank lines, > which I find equally meaningful with both kinds of editing. Sure > it's not what one may be used to from one's run-of-the-mill GUI > editor, but then almost nothing in Vim is! > > /bpj > > -- > -- > You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. > Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. > For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php > > --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "vim_use" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Gerald Klein DBA [email protected] www.geraldklein.com <http://geraldklein.com/> geraldklein.wordpress.com [email protected] 708-599-0352 Arch, Gentoo I3, Ranger & Vim the coding triple threat. Linux registered user #548580 Brought to you by the Amish Mafia -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
