Re: Vim as prose editor - how to remove '~' and '@'

On Sat, 7 Jun 2014, Paul Isambert wrote:

> Le samedi 07 juin 2014 à 10:39, James Freer a écrit:
>> 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.
>
> For the "@", use
>
> set display=lastline
>
> I don't think you can remove the "~" for the missing lines, but you
> can hide it with something like:
>
> hi NonText guifg=bg
>
> (and something similar for the console). Beware, this will also hide
> other things, see the help on hl-NonText.
>
> Best,
> Paul

many thanks - I'll look into the NonText.

james

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