When juggling between different installed versions or forks of vim, the default start screen is quite helpful in reminding on what version/type of vim is actually running. For example I have both vim and neovim installed. Hopefully the shell alias vi points to the one vim I think it does. In case I remember wrong, the start screen reminds me of what I'm actually running
See screenshots of default vim & neovim start screens here:
It's possible to add the version manually by using e.g. startify_custom_header or startify_custom_footer as shown in #449 . However this is quite some effort to do. I think it would benefit many if there was some startify_show_version option that adds the current version as stylished in the first line of :version.
That is, for the versions shown in the screenshot above, setting a future let g:startify_show_version = 1 would include somewhere in the startup screen the string
When juggling between different installed versions or forks of vim, the default start screen is quite helpful in reminding on what version/type of vim is actually running. For example I have both vim and neovim installed. Hopefully the shell alias
vipoints to the one vim I think it does. In case I remember wrong, the start screen reminds me of what I'm actually runningSee screenshots of default vim & neovim start screens here:
It's possible to add the version manually by using e.g.
startify_custom_headerorstartify_custom_footeras shown in #449 . However this is quite some effort to do. I think it would benefit many if there was somestartify_show_versionoption that adds the current version as stylished in the first line of:version.That is, for the versions shown in the screenshot above, setting a future
let g:startify_show_version = 1would include somewhere in the startup screen the stringVim 8.2.2029NVIM v0.5.1These snippets shows how versions could be extracted: https://gist.github.com/erikw/bd4c552b11733cd1ba9440095edaa4e8