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
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