Re: Statusline function quirks

Hello Benjamin,

Excerpt from Benjamin R. Haskell:

> Three related questions about statusline:
>
> 1. The help for 'stl' states that the statusline will be evaluated with·
> each window (and buffer) set to the current window (and buffer). So, is·
> it a bug in the following that the local settings of the current window·
> are mirrored in all statusline entries? (Version info below¹)

I currently working on something similar it seems.
This has helped me:
http://vim.1045645.n5.nabble.com/wish-different-statusline-format-for-noncurrent-statusline-td1209896.html

> " This isn't what I'm actually doing in my function
> " It's just a reduced test case
> fun! StatusLine()
> let indent = '('.repeat('·', &l:sw).')'
> let cole = &l:cole ? ' ['.&l:cole.']' : ''
> return indent . cole
> endf
>
> let &stl = '%!StatusLine()'
>
> 2. Is there a way to access the 'actual_curbuf' variable from within a·
> function called as part of 'stl'?
>
> E.g.:
> se stl=%!StatusLine()
> fun! StatusLine()
> " access actual_curbuf from here?
> endf
>
>
> 3. Trying a non-function approach, should the following work (change the·
> highlighting for non-current statuslines)?
>
> let &stl = '%<%f%{bufnr("")==actual_curbuf?"":"%#Error#"}blahblahblah'
-- <snip> --

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Thilo

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