Thanks for the pointers. gordon ----- Original Message ----- From: Tony Mechelynck <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 01:30:46 +0100 Subject: Re: VIM scroll bar is missing scroll box
> On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 5:48 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks for reading. > > I am using Terminal VIM and it works very well. > > And the scroll bar for Terminal works fine. > > But when I run VIM (from Terminal or batch file), > > the scroll bar has no "scroll box". > > The "scroll box" is that small rectangle indicating > > the location of the current window. > > > > Batch file: > > @echo off > > chdir C:/cygwin64/bin > > start mintty.exe -p 0,0 /usr/bin/vim.exe %1 > > > > How can I get the scroll bar working for Terminal VIM? > > In Console mode, the scrollbar is a console feature, not a Vim > feature. But Vim will tell you at which "percentage" of the file you > are looking, usually in the bottom-right corner of the current > split-window, where it says one of the following: > All > Top > Bot > nn% > The first three tell you that you see one end, or the other, or both, > of the file, Otherwise it tells you a percentage, from 01% to 99%, > meaning you are at that "percentage point" within the file. If you use > a custom 'statusline' setting, it is the %P element (or you can use %p > instead, for more verbosity). > > To get a Vim scrollbar, use gvim (or, on the Mac, macvim) instead of > vim. Then you can set 'guioptions' to have or not have scrollbars on > the left, right and/or bottom depending on some conditions (see ":help > 'guioptions' " with the single quotes but not the double quotes). > > Best regards, > Tony. > > -- > -- > 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. > -- -- 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.
