Re: Left-align after separator on status line?

On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 2:32 AM, Gary Johnson <garyjohn@spocom.com> wrote:
> On 2010-04-30, Nathan Neff wrote:
>> Currently, I have the status line displaying Vim's
>> current working directory.
>>
>> I like having the cwd on the right side of the status line.
>>
>> I would like to align the cwd as far left to the separator
>> as possible, so that it doesn't shift around when I navigate
>> from column 1 to column 10, (likewise row 1 to row 10).
>>
>> I've tried many variations of the sprintf syntax, and can't get
>> the current working directory not to shift around depending on the
>> line # and col # that I'm on.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> function! MyStatusLine()
>>     let l:statline = '%='                     "left/right separator
>>     let l:statline = l:statline . '%-20{" | " . fnamemodify(getcwd(),
>> ":t") . " | "}'
>>     let l:statline = l:statline . '%l, %v of %L'      "cursor line/total lines
>>     return l:statline
>> endfunction
>>
>> " Status Line
>> set laststatus=2
>> set statusline=%!MyStatusLine()
>
> It's been a while since I wrote this, so I don't remember off-hand
> what all the format specifiers mean, but this 'statusline' looks
> like the default 'statusline' with 'ruler' set and with the addition
> of the name of the current function displayed at the right side of
> the status line, just left of the line and column numbers.  The
> function name--the return value of TagName()--does not shift when
> the line and column numbers change.  You should be able to replace
> TagName() with a function that returns the cwd and get the behavior
> you want.
>
>    let &statusline='%<%f %(%h%m%r %)%=%{TagName()} %-15.15(%l,%c%V%)%P'
>
> Regards,
> Gary

Thank you very much -- this works exactly like I want!

The 'foo' in my status bar stays in the same column
in both the situations below:

foo line 100 column 200
foo line 1 column 1

Thanks again,
--Nate

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