Re: How to put a character the statusline?

On 12/12/11 06:19, Bee wrote:
> This returns the decimal value of the byte (character) under the
> cursor:
>
>> set statusline+=%b " decimal byte
>
> :help statusline
> b N Value of byte under cursor.
>
> Since 'b' returns the decimal value as a number (N), could something
> like this work?
> (I cannot get it to work)
>
> set statusline+=%{nr2char(b)} " character under cursor
>
> -Bill
>

No. %b is a _code_ which conventionally adds to the statusline the
decimal value of the character under the cursor. The insides of %{} must
be an _expression_ which would have a meaning even outside the
'statusline' option. %{nr2char(b)} would only return something if you
had a global numeric _variable_ named b

Best regards,
Tony.
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