Scrollbars, which let you navigate up and down or right and left quickly through a file, are optional in gvim. You can display or hide them with the guioptions option, described at the end of this chapter in GUI Options and Command Synopsis.

Because Vim’s standard behavior is to show all text in the file (wrapping lines in the window if necessary), it’s interesting to note that the horizontal scrollbar serves no purpose in typically configured gvim sessions.