A more useful statusline in vim

Question

I   d like to make my statusline in vim more informative and interesting  and for that I need some ideas  How did you customize your statusline

User · Answer

I currently use this statusbar settings   set laststatus 2 set statusline    f m r h w          amp ff       amp fenc        amp enc  amp fenc    exists    bomb      amp  amp    amp bomb     B          k   Y         l  v   p          My complete  vimrc file  http   gabriev82 altervista org projects vim-configuration

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Here s mine   set statusline  set statusline    1    n                 buffer number set statusline    5    amp ff                file format set statusline    3  y                   file type set statusline    4     lt  F               full path set statusline    2  m                   modified flag set statusline    1    5l                current line set statusline    2   L                  total lines set statusline    1  4v                  virtual column number set statusline    2 0x 04B               character under cursor     And here s the colors I used   hi User1 guifg  eea040 guibg  222222 hi User2 guifg  dd3333 guibg  222222 hi User3 guifg  ff66ff guibg  222222 hi User4 guifg  a0ee40 guibg  222222 hi User5 guifg  eeee40 guibg  222222

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What I ve found useful is to know which copy paste buffer  register  is currently active    v register   Otherwise  my complete status line looks almost exactly like the standard line    set statusline   lt  f   h m r   y    v register    -14   l  c V     P

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This is the one I use   set statusline  set statusline   7    n                                    buffernr set statusline   1     lt  F                                  File path set statusline   2    y                                    FileType set statusline   3          amp fenc      amp fenc  amp enc            Encoding set statusline   3       amp bomb    BOM                       Encoding2 set statusline   4      amp ff                                 FileFormat  dos unix     set statusline   5      amp spelllang    HighlightSearch       Spellanguage  amp  Highlight on  set statusline   8       row  l  L    03p                  Rownumber total     set statusline   9   col  03c                              Colnr set statusline   0      m r w   P                          Modified  Readonly  Top bot    Highlight on  function   function  HighlightSearch     if  amp hls     return  H    else     return      endif endfunction   Colors  adapted from ligh2011 vim    hi User1 guifg  ffdad8  guibg  880c0e hi User2 guifg  000000  guibg  F4905C hi User3 guifg  292b00  guibg  f4f597 hi User4 guifg  112605  guibg  aefe7B hi User5 guifg  051d00  guibg  7dcc7d hi User7 guifg  ffffff  guibg  880c0e gui bold hi User8 guifg  ffffff  guibg  5b7fbb hi User9 guifg  ffffff  guibg  810085 hi User0 guifg  ffffff  guibg  094afe

User · Answer

set statusline   lt  f m       amp ff     amp fenc   Y     getcwd           strftime   Y  b  d   a   I  M   p           Line  l   L  Column  c V   P  This is mine  give as a suggestion

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Edit -      Note vim-airline is gaining   some traction as the new vimscript option as powerline has gone   python      Seems powerline is where it is at these days -  Normal status line    Customised status lines for other plugins  e g  ctrlp

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Some times less is more  do you really need to know the percentage through the file you are when coding  What about the type of file   set statusline  F m r h w   set statusline    fugitive statusline         set statusline     strlen  amp fenc   amp fenc  amp enc   set statusline     line   l   L            set statusline    rvm statusline                 I also prefer minimal color as not to distract from the code   Taken from  https   github com krisleech vimfiles  Note  rvm statusline is Ruby specific and fugitive statusline is git specific

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