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Global Statusline · Issue #9342 · neovim/neovim · GitHub

• Every window has its own statusline
• But: Only one can be active at once
• Inactive statusline gives no useful information...
• Any sufficiently sophisticated statusline (powerline, etc) will get truncated in vertical splits
• Truncation increases visual clutter
• The default powerline setup easily fills up 80 characters (without plugins):
  

Wouldn't it be nice to have a single statusline at the bottom, like in screen or tmux?

• Statusline is always in the same spot, 'where you expect it to be'
• We already have a 'global' command line: It's at the bottom!
• Less visual clutter, nicer window seperators (see below)
• Might speed up the UI: 'statusline' needs to be evaluated only for the active window, rather than all.
• Only restricted in size by your Terminal.

I'm strongly in favor of a 'laststatus' value of 3 enabling the global statusline, since any value < 0 or > 2 currently doesn't error, and instead behaves like 'laststatus' = 1.

Currently, only vertical window seperators are used. ('vert' value in 'fillchars')
All Terminals I've tried correctly display box drawing characters (tested with tmux), so I think those should be the default. Otherwise, window seperators would probably need their own option:

'windowseperators' (default: ─│├┤┬┴┼, for 1-1, 1|1, 1|2, 2|1 1-2, 2-1, and 2*2 layouts respectively).

Another thing that could be done would be to highlight the window seperators around the active window differently, like tmux does. This could be used to more easily distinguish the active window when the global statusline is enabled, although I don't think that is really necessary.

Implementation: medium (Additional options and ui code)
Maintainability: minor

This mock-up was made with tmux as well as some slight editing:

joereynolds, AlexMasterov, teto, ThomasFeher, I60R and 90 morekhalidchawtany, chmln, dawidpotocki, ya2s, TomatoMus and 58 moremawkler, polyzen, Virgiel, maxpushka and rewhile

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