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Scroll bar for vim(curses-based one, not gvim)?

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Mar 15, 202611386 views
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As a Linux user, I have been quite comfortable with CLI and TUI tools, but I miss the little scrollbar present in almost every GUI program. It has always been easier for me to know how long the file is and where I am from the scrollbar instead of "9752 lines, 24%". What I expect is a ASCII scrollba…

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Fix for: Scroll bar for vim(curses-based one, not gvim)?

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It is possible to use the statusline as a scrollbar. I used to have the following in my .vimrc, which emulates a scrollbar (also it is only horizontally, but it works surprisingly well). This was originally discussed on the vim_use Mailinglist some …

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