Re: How to put a character the statusline?

On Sun, 11 Dec 2011, Bee wrote:
> I know how to put the decimal and hex equivalent of the character
> under the cursor in the statusline:
>
> set statusline+=%b " decimal byte '98'
> set statusline+=\x%02B " hex byte 'x62'
>
> How to put the character itself in the statusline?

here is another method to accomplish the task. keep in mind that %b is a
format operator, not a variable.

set statusline=
\\ %F
\%<
\%=
\\ %-12(charnum:%03b%)
\\ %-12(charstr:%{CurCharStr()}%)

function! CurCharStr()
normal yl
return @"
endfunction

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