Re: VIM scroll bar is missing scroll box

On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 5:48 AM, <gordon55gg@gmail.com> 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.

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