How can I stop MacVim showing a whole screen of extra scroll?

Question

Whenever I load files into MacVim it seems to retain the full screen full of ~ lines.

This means that scroll is always out by a complete screen which is fairly annoying. Is there a way to avoid this behavior?

Answer 1

I have the following set in my ~/.gvimrc

set guioptions-=L
set guioptions-=r
set guioptions-=T

This removes the toolbar, scroll bars etc.

You can still scroll the page, but the bar doesn't show. For some reason you can't string all these options together. See: http://code.google.com/p/macvim/issues/detail?id=161