Minimal and fast statusline module with opinionated default look

See more details in Features and Documentation.

[!NOTE] This was previously hosted at a personal echasnovski GitHub account. It was transferred to a dedicated organization to improve long term project stability. See more details here.

⦿ This is a part of mini.nvim library. Please use this link if you want to mention this module.

⦿ All contributions (issues, pull requests, discussions, etc.) are done inside of 'mini.nvim'.

⦿ See whole library documentation to learn about general design principles, disable/configuration recipes, and more.

⦿ See MiniMax for a full config example that uses this module.

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

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/24854248/173045208-42463c8f-a2ac-488d-9d30-216891f4bb51.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):

Nerd font and enabled 'mini.icons' module to show filetype icons. Can fall back to using nvim-tree/nvim-web-devicons plugin.
Enabled 'mini.git' and 'mini.diff' modules to show Git and diff related information. Can fall back to using lewis6991/gitsigns.nvim plugin.

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):

'mini.nvim' library:

| Branch | Code snippet | |--------|-----------------------------------------------| | Main | Follow recommended 'mini.deps' installation | | Stable | Follow recommended 'mini.deps' installation |
Standalone plugin:

| Branch | Code snippet | |--------|----------------------------------------------------------------------| | Main | add('nvim-mini/mini.statusline') | | Stable | add({ source = 'nvim-mini/mini.statusline', checkout = 'stable' }) |

</details> <details> <summary>With <a href="https://github.com/folke/lazy.nvim">folke/lazy.nvim</a></summary>

'mini.nvim' library:

| Branch | Code snippet | |--------|-----------------------------------------------| | Main | { 'nvim-mini/mini.nvim', version = false }, | | Stable | { 'nvim-mini/mini.nvim', version = '*' }, |
Standalone plugin:

| Branch | Code snippet | |--------|-----------------------------------------------------| | Main | { 'nvim-mini/mini.statusline', version = false }, | | Stable | { 'nvim-mini/mini.statusline', version = '*' }, |

</details> <details> <summary>With <a href="https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug">junegunn/vim-plug</a></summary>

'mini.nvim' library:

| Branch | Code snippet | |--------|------------------------------------------------------| | Main | Plug 'nvim-mini/mini.nvim' | | Stable | Plug 'nvim-mini/mini.nvim', { 'branch': 'stable' } |
Standalone plugin:

| Branch | Code snippet | |--------|------------------------------------------------------------| | Main | Plug 'nvim-mini/mini.statusline' | | Stable | Plug 'nvim-mini/mini.statusline', { 'branch': 'stable' } |

</details>

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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