Re: ruler / statusline

On 7 November 2012 01:03, John Little wrote:

> On Tuesday, November 6, 2012 6:42:57 AM UTC+13, shawn wilson wrote:
> > rulerformat almost does what i want but it
> > seems to only allow 18 characters in that space.
>
> A bit of experimentation, and 40 characters seems to be
> allowed. I tried
>
> :set ls=1
> :let &ruf = '%40(' . &stl . '%)'
>
> and there was my status line, without the colours,
> sitting on the bottom right. Using 50 gave the same
> result.

Yeah, last I checked, the maximum allowed by the
%{width}{item} notation was 50-or-so chars. To get round
this I wrote a function to manually pad out the status line
with spaces. (Cos I liked the nvi way of having the line and
col in the centre of the statusline.) --Antony

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