Vim: Status line
Deciding to see if I could make my vim status line a bit more practical for myself. I decided to try having the modification ‘[+]’ warning as the first thing on the line. I do not want the rest of the line jumping about when it changes from empty to +, using min widths that should be no problem:
" m is the [+] when modified
set statusline=-%-01h-%10m-%-01r
This becomes empty except the ‘- - -‘ when no flags are set, from :help statusline
When all items in a group becomes an empty string (i.e. flags that are not set) and a minwid is not set for the group, the whole group will become empty. This will make a group like the following disappear completely from the statusline when none of the flags are set. > :set statusline=…%(\ [%M%R%H]%)…
You can also group several items together and apply formatting
to the group as a whole. To do this, use the %(...%) syntax.
For example: %20(%l/%L%) would display<current-line>/<total-lines>
at a minimum width of 20 characters.
Winner: create a group with %width( … %)
" m is the [+] when modified
set statusline=%10(-%h-%m-%r%)
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