Vim: Soft wrap and long lines with at-signs

Question

I have a buffer with :set wrap enabled. It appears like this:

If I make the window just a little bigger, the @ signs in the gutter go away, and I can see the full line.

My question is what option governs these @ at-signs, and how can I change vim to show me these long lines when I can't see the end of them?

Answer 1

To remove the @ symbols, enable the lastline flag in the 'display' option, for example by putting the following in your .vimrc:

set display=lastline

The window-contents section of the vim manual describes the resulting behavior in more detail, but briefly, this will truncate the end of the last line and replace it with @@@ (to indicate that it is cut off by the bottom edge of the window), instead of hiding the entire last line behind at signs.