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

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Published on 2011-04-28T07:33:18Z Indexed on 2012/07/05 15:18 UTC
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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 scrollbar that looks like

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and I can configure to appear on the left or right (and if on the left, the relative position to line numbers and fold marks). Is there already a Vim plugin to do this, or how can I write my own one? Vim's plugin framework doesn't seem to support such UI modifications directly.

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