On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 02:47:48PM EDT, Yegappan Lakshmanan wrote: > Hi, > > On 6/4/06, cga2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Is there any way the "tilde lines" that represent empty lines at the end > >of the buffer can be changed to something else or removed altogether? > > > > AFAIK, you cannot remove/hide the tilde lines. You can change the > highlighting used for the tilde lines using the NonText highlight > group. > .. for some reason I find them annoying.. :-)
.. tried setting NonText "ctermfg=black ctermbg=black" and they were still visible > > > >Is there any was the "statusline" can be displayed systematically? As > >far as I can tell it only materializes when I split the display. > > > > You can set the 'laststatus' option to 2 to always display the status line: > > set laststatus=2 > great, thanks. I don't like stuff like that to change while I'm editing. > > > >Is there any way I can have the contents of a buffer displayed a couple > >of columns to the right of the (sub)window's border? I currently specify > >"set foldcolumn=" but that doesn't appeear to be what it was meant for > >so I was wondering whether there might be a better way. > > > >Is there any way I can have vim display the hex contents of a buffer? I > >currently do a "ggVG :!od -t x1z -w32" followed by "u" to revert back to > >a regular view but maybe there is a more straightforward way to achieve > >the same result. > > > > You can use the xxd tool shipped with Vim to convert a file to hex format > and back. definitely more straightforward if you take xxd's defaults. I'll switch to that. > > - Yegappan Thanks, cga
