dinoqqq / vim-scrollbar

An attempt to display a scrollbar with 'thumb' in curses-based vim. Uses the 'sign' feature of vim to display a scrollbar on the left-hand side.

#vim-scrollbar

Displays a scrollbar with 'thumb' in curses-based vim (works in terminal).

Uses the 'sign' feature of vim to display a scrollbar on the left-hand side.

![Screenshot] (doc/screenshot-00.png)

Settings

Starts out enabled when sourced, assuming you always want to see the scrollbar. If you'd like to default to starting unsourced, add this to your .vimrc:

" Prevents loading by telling the plugin it's already loaded. You'll have
" to :call ToggleScrollbar()<CR> if you want to load it manually.
let g:loaded_scrollbar=1

Default settings. These can be overridden by putting these in your .vimrc:

" Default characters to use in the scrollbar.
let g:scrollbar_thumb='#'
let g:scrollbar_clear='|'

" Color settings.
highlight Scrollbar_Clear ctermfg=green ctermbg=black guifg=green guibg=black cterm=none
highlight Scrollbar_Thumb ctermfg=darkgreen ctermbg=darkgreen guifg=darkgreen guibg=darkgreen cterm=reverse

Default mapping to toggle the scrollbar on/off is <leader>sb. If you're new to vim, that means \sb (press those keys in that order). You can change this by adding this line to your .vimrc and editing the mapping.

map <leader>sb :call ToggleScrollbar()<cr>

License

Distributed under the same terms as Vim itself. See :help license.

Contributors

• Current Maintainer: Sam Liu [e-mail]
• Initial Author: Loni Nix [e-mail]