Single mini.statusline while nvim-dapui is loaded, possible?

[feryardiant]

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Question

First of all, thank you for the awesome plugin set!

My current issues with mini's statusline (not really mini's issues, but rather my understanding how to configure it to fit my need is still limited at the moment) are

• Is it possible to have only one mini.statusline appears on screen while nvim-dapui is loaded?

  Here's my lualine looks like

  

  And here's mini.statusline

  

• Is there a way to configure only the filename section without having to rewrite entire default content.active.

  In this case I want to only show relative path to current working directory instead of full absolute path. Is that possible?

[echasnovski]

First of all, thank you for the awesome plugin set!

Thanks for giving it a try!

• Is it possible to have only one mini.statusline appears on screen while nvim-dapui is loaded?

The lualine screenshot looks like it uses the so called "global statusline". Set vim.o.laststatus = 3 to have that look. This works with 'mini.statusline' and any other statusline plugin.

• Is there a way to configure only the filename section without having to rewrite entire default content.active.

I am afraid the suggested way is to indeed define the whole content.active as a function. This is an intentional design choice: allow nearly any possible statusline customization at a cost of requiring a significant amount of code for a small change.

Although, technically, there is a way with monkey-patching MiniStatusline.section_filename. However, this is not a robust solution (as this relies on implementation details which make it work at the moment), so I won't provide the actual code or advise to use it.

[feryardiant]

Thank you for your kind response

it uses the so called "global statusline"

Yes vim.o.laststatus = 3 did the trick, but then I realized that won't work when I set that option before require('mini.statusline').setup(). No matter its using vim.o, vim.g or even vim.api.nvim_set_option like what lualine does neither of them are working.

require('mini.statusline').setup()

vim.o.laststatus = 3

This is an intentional design choice

That's unfortunate, and I can understand that. Anyway, would you ever consider to have such "section options" for those who really just want a small change, something like

require('mini.statusline').setup({
  sections = {
     -- Option: 'full' (default), 'relative', 'filename'
    filename_mode = 'full',

    -- Map existing `diagnostic_levels` to a custom icons
    diagnostic_icons = { 
      ERROR = '',
      WARN = '',
      INFO = '',
      HINT = '',
    }
  }
})

Or would you willing to accept it when someone sent you pr in this regard?

[echasnovski]

Yes vim.o.laststatus = 3 did the trick, but then I realized that won't work when I set that option before require('mini.statusline').setup().

It does work with any way to actually set the option (which is usually vim.o; vim.g is for global Vimscript variables), as 'mini.statusline' doesn't change the value if it is 2 or 3.

That's unfortunate, and I can understand that. Anyway, would you ever consider to have such "section options" for those who really just want a small change, something like
...
Or would you willing to accept it when someone sent you pr in this regard?

I am afraid, this won't happen. The reason for this is that a reasonably sized customization (not a one-off change) on the user side would still get pretty close to writing the full function. The default one is 21 lines and explicitly shows the statusline parts (which is a good thing in my opinion). And that is not even considering the added complexity on 'mini.statusline' code.