floatline.nvim

Make 1 global statusline on floating window

It need neovim 0.6 lastest. It is not a statusline plugin. It copy your statusline to floating window It support all statusline plugin. I tested vim-airline,lightline.vim,lualine.nvim

Installation

Plug 'windwp/floatline.nvim'

--- Packer
use 'windwp/floatline.nvim'


require('floatline').setup()

How do I do that?

• create a floating window on bottom
• use luv(vim.loop) to update text and highlight by extmark.

custom status.

local count = 1
local txt = '%#Visual# shadman so lazy %##'
require('floatline').setup({
    status = function()
        local space = string.rep(' ', vim.o.columns - count- 15)
        if count < vim.o.columns then
            count = count + 2
        else
          return nil
        end
        return space .. txt
    end,
})

you can use it to do something fun or intergation with your plugin statusline

Issue

• If you open another tabpage and close the last window by command. :quit or :bdelete :close . It will throw error so you need to change to use command :Wquit and :Wbdelete.

Issue neovim/neovim#11440 it will not happen if that issue is fixed or you can build neovim with PR neovim/neovim#14387

• a floating window can overlap some messages from command line mode

Warning

floatline.nvim only copy the statusline to floating window. It can't hide the default statusline on active window because it belong to statusline plugin.

If you want to looking for a statusline support to hide it.

You can try for better experiences

• windline.nvim