Re: VIM scroll bar is missing scroll box

Thanks for the pointers.
gordon

----- Original Message -----
From: Tony Mechelynck <antoine.mechelynck@gmail.com>
To: vim_use@googlegroups.com
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, <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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