Re: Color at the crossing of status lines and vertical split - attached files (1/1)

2015-05-07 16:58 GMT+03:00 Nicola <nvitacolonna@gmail.com>:
> In article <20150506153730.GA6609@256bit.org>,
> Christian Brabandt <cblists@256bit.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi Nicola!
>>
>> On Mo, 04 Mai 2015, Nicola wrote:
>>
>> > Hello,
>> > my first post here, hope my question is not too trivial. Is there a way
>> > to change the color for the one character at the crossing of a vertical
>> > split bar and the bottom status lines? Schematically:
>>
>> I don't think this is possible.
>
> I have almost solved it. For some reason, a custom status line does not
> influence that spot, but StatusLine and StatusLineNC do. Try this:
>
> vim -u NONE
> set ls=2
> hi User1 ctermbg=1
> set stl=%1*%f%=%f%*
> <C-w> v
>
> The character between the status lines should have a different color (if
> not, change ctermbg to something else). Now try:
>
> hi StatusLine ctermfg=1
> hi StatusLineNC ctermfg=1
>
> Now the character should be almost the same color as the status lines
> (it may change slightly when switching between windows).
>
> I just have to figure out why, when I define StatusLine and StatusLineNC
> with my custom status line (whose definition is a bit more complicated
> than the above), a string of ^^^ starts to appear in the status lines.

Check out :h 'fillchars', specifically a note about the stl/stlnc
suboption defaults.

> May it depend on not resetting colors with %* (e.g., using %1*%f%2*
> instead of %1%f%*%2*)?
>
> Nicola
>
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