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nvim-lualine / lualine.nvim

A blazing fast and easy to configure neovim statusline plugin written in pure lua.
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Feat: Command-line editing within status bar #870

Closed nosvagor closed 2 years ago

nosvagor commented 2 years ago

Requested feature

Command-line mode is used to enter Ex commands (":"), search patterns("/" and "?"), and filter commands ("!").

Could this be made into a component within lualine?

Motivation

One can set cmdheight=0 to hide command line when not in use, and I would like this, but I don't like how the cmdline replaces the status (lualine).

I tried to find some other implementations of this, looked through requested features (even of other status lines) and I couldn't find any discussion about such idea.

I could be just completely missing an option to allow the cmdline to pop-up below the status line... but why not integrate it directly? I have a big gap in the middle of my status bar that could optionally show a cmd-line input box, and I'm assuming others might too.

Furthermore, I suspect this might be hard to implement, and possibly slow things down. But, I'm curious if it is a reasonable request, or something I (naively) could maybe try to do.

quantum-booty commented 2 years ago

checkout https://github.com/folke/noice.nvim It doesn't implement the cmdline inside the statusline, however it moves it to the middle of your screen, and has statusline components so you could pipe messages into lualine.

nosvagor commented 2 years ago

checkout https://github.com/folke/noice.nvim It doesn't implement the cmdline inside the statusline, however it moves it to the middle of your screen, and has statusline components so you could pipes the message into lualine.

Probably a better solution to my problem; definitely checking this out.