My New Vim Statusline

In January I wrote about my Vim statusline, explaining all its parts and why they're enough for me not to care about using something like Airline.

Since then I've realized:

1. I don't actually read almost any of it, ever;
2. There's a single command that deprecates three different parts at once.

In light of this, I removed a lot of cruft and am much happier with the result, and I'd like to share it here:

set statusline=

set statusline+=%F                          " file path
set statusline+=\ 
set statusline+=%{ReadonlyForStatusline()}  " readonly ([!])
set statusline+=\ 
set statusline+=%m                          " modified ([+])

set statusline+=%=                          " right-align from here

set statusline+=%{PasteForStatusline()}     " paste ([p])
set statusline+=\ 
set statusline+=[%{ALEGetStatusLine()}]     " ALE

Here's what it looks like:

Yep, that's the whole thing. Here are the ingredients:

• file path: self explanatory
• readonly: shows [!] if the file is read-only
• modified: shows [+] if the file has been modified but not saved
• paste: shows [p] if paste mode is enabled
• ALE: shows my linter's flags ([x3 !5]/[OK]):
  • x for errors
  • ! for warnings
  • OK if all is well

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