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A blazing fast and easy to configure neovim statusline plugin written in pure lua.
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Allow components to not change color when vim mode changes #571

Closed n0bra1n3r closed 2 years ago

n0bra1n3r commented 2 years ago

Requested feature

When vim switches modes, the statusline component colors and tabline component colors change. I would like to disable this effect per component. Perhaps a mode_color component option?

Motivation

I am using the tabline feature to render certain components in the tabline. Since the tabline is not updated as frequently as the statusline, sometimes the colors desynchronize.

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This will allow further customizability and control, especially for those who use the tabline feature.

shadmansaleh commented 2 years ago

TBH I don't like current behavior of modes changing color of all components at all . This behavior predates me and currently we are pretty much locked in as that's how themes are set .

I'd really like to change theme format to something like following:

local theme = {
  sections = {a={}, b={}, c={}, (optional x, y, z)},
  inactive = {a={}, b={}, c={},  (optional x, y, z)}, -- optional inactive status color customization
  tabline = {a={}, b={}, c={},  (optional x, y, z)}, -- optional tabline color customization
  components = { -- optional component specific color customization
    mode = { (mode colors effecting only mode compoent) },
   ....
   (other components)
}

But that will basically break all themes in existence .Since there are a ton of themes out of this repo in colorschemes I can't fix this without serious breakage for users :/

I would like to disable this effect per component. Perhaps a mode_color component option?

You can use color option (with both fg & bg or link ti a group) and set a default color for that component and it won't change color with mode. For example if your component is in lualine_a/z_section

require'lualine'.setup {
  tabline = {
   lualine_z = {
      {'branch', color = 'lualine_a_normal'}
    }
  }
}

As current mode based color change is done on section level making it stop on component level with an option like mode_color=false would require a ton of code change .It'll be too much effort for little gain in my opinion. So I think I'll just leave is a solved by color option unless in some time I actually decide to rewrite the themes .

Since the tabline is not updated as frequently as the statusline, sometimes the colors desynchronize

You can try https://github.com/nvim-lualine/lualine.nvim/wiki/FAQ#my-tabline-updates-infrequently

n0bra1n3r commented 2 years ago

Thanks! Yes explicitly setting the color in the components works well enough for me.