Filler character

[simonmandlik]

Hi, what is the recommended way to fill the rest of statusline with a single character? I know that it is possible to do with spaces, but what if I want to use other character than space?

There are two possible solutions I could think of:

• Using flexible components with a looot of children (providing all possible lengths of the fill), and
• manually computing the length based on other components and window width, which seems that it will be much more efficient.

Thanks!

[rebelot]

You are looking for :h 'fillchars' stl field

[simonmandlik]

Thanks for the quick reply :)

I know about fillchars, which works fine for "global" fillchars. However, I can't hide statusline e.g. in NvimTree buffers

vim.api.nvim_create_autocmd("FileType", {
    pattern = "NvimTree",
    callback = function()
        local set = vim.opt_local
        set.fillchars = { stl = " ", stlnc = " "  }
        -- doesn't work either
        -- set.fillchars.stl = " "
        -- set.fillchars.stlnc = " "
    end
})