/mini.statusline

Neovim Lua plugin with minimal and fast statusline. Fork of mini.statusline which is part of 'mini.nvim' library.

Primary LanguageLuaMIT LicenseMIT

mini.statusline

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Minimal and fast statusline module with opinionated default look

See more details in Features and help file.


⦿ This is a fork from mini.statusline which is part of mini.nvim library.

⦿ Here we have flexible components available using the MiniStatusline.flexibleGroups which takes in a opts table which can have groups table and an optional preprocess function. Each table in the groups table defines a section with the following fields:

-- @param priority: optional int - A value which decides truncating order of components. Lower priority components are hidden before higher priority ones
-- @param string: function or array of functions - If function, should return the section string. Array of function can be used to give smaller versions of the string, in which the first one that fits the window width is selected. Eg :- {filename_func, filenameShort_func}
-- @param hl: optional string - The highlight group
-- @param hl_fn: optional function - A function which returns a highlight group, useful dynamic highlight groups like those based on vim mode

⦿ See the repository page to learn about common design principles and configuration recipes.


If you want to help this project grow but don't know where to start, check out contributing guides of 'mini.nvim' or leave a Github star for 'mini.nvim' project and/or any its standalone Git repositories.

Demo

demo-statusline.mp4

Features

  • Define own custom statusline structure for active and inactive windows. This is done with a function which should return string appropriate for |statusline|. Its code should be similar to default one with structure:
    • Compute string data for every section you want to be displayed.
    • Combine them in groups with MiniStatusline.combine_groups().
  • Built-in active mode indicator with colors.
  • Sections can hide information when window is too narrow (specific window width is configurable per section).

Dependencies

For full experience needs (still works without any of suggestions):

Installation

This plugin can be installed as part of 'mini.nvim' library (recommended) or as a standalone Git repository.

There are two branches to install from:

  • main (default, recommended) will have latest development version of plugin. All changes since last stable release should be perceived as being in beta testing phase (meaning they already passed alpha-testing and are moderately settled).
  • stable will be updated only upon releases with code tested during public beta-testing phase in main branch.

Here are code snippets for some common installation methods (use only one):

With mini.deps
Github repo Branch Code snippet
'mini.nvim' library Main Follow recommended 'mini.deps' installation
Stable
Standalone plugin Main add('echasnovski/mini.statusline')
Stable add({ source = 'echasnovski/mini.statusline', checkout = 'stable' })
With folke/lazy.nvim
Github repo Branch Code snippet
'mini.nvim' library Main { 'echasnovski/mini.nvim', version = false },
Stable { 'echasnovski/mini.nvim', version = '*' },
Standalone plugin Main { 'echasnovski/mini.statusline', version = false },
Stable { 'echasnovski/mini.statusline', version = '*' },
With junegunn/vim-plug
Github repo Branch Code snippet
'mini.nvim' library Main Plug 'echasnovski/mini.nvim'
Stable Plug 'echasnovski/mini.nvim', { 'branch': 'stable' }
Standalone plugin Main Plug 'echasnovski/mini.statusline'
Stable Plug 'echasnovski/mini.statusline', { 'branch': 'stable' }

Important: don't forget to call require('mini.statusline').setup() to enable its functionality.

Note: if you are on Windows, there might be problems with too long file paths (like error: unable to create file <some file name>: Filename too long). Try doing one of the following:

  • Enable corresponding git global config value: git config --system core.longpaths true. Then try to reinstall.
  • Install plugin in other place with shorter path.

Default config

-- No need to copy this inside `setup()`. Will be used automatically.
{
  -- Content of statusline as functions which return statusline string. See
  -- `:h statusline` and code of default contents (used instead of `nil`).
  content = {
    -- Content for active window
    active = nil,
    -- Content for inactive window(s)
    inactive = nil,
  },

  -- Whether to use icons by default
  use_icons = true,
}

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