overlap between nvim statusline (and associated plugins) and built-in statusline manager

[mkaminsky]

I've been playing around with the new nvim statusline feature in v1.10.0 (PR #1895), which is really nice.

Specifically, I've been trying to see if I can create a modified version of the lualine.nvim configuration that I use outside of vscode. For example, I am able to load it successfully, via lazy.nvim, as follows:

  {
    "nvim-lualine/lualine.nvim",
    vscode = true,
    opts = function()
      return {
        options = {
          section_separators = "",
          component_separators = "|",
        },
        sections = {
          lualine_a = { "mode", "selectioncount" },
          lualine_b = {},
          lualine_c = {},
          lualine_x = {},
          lualine_y = {},
          lualine_z = {},
        },
      }
    end,
  }

In vscode, the statusline will show duplicate information in, for example, visual mode: VISUAL | 4|4

• The first 4 comes from lualine's "selectioncount"; the second is from the extension.
• It seems that the statusline is made up a handful of components:
  this.statusBar.text = [this.nvimStatusLine, this._modeText, this._cmdText, this._msgText]
• cmdText is showing the same selection information as the nvimStatusLine
• But...cmdText also shows partial commands, such as a "r" and the count prefix, which the lualine config does not.
• Is there a way to have the extension show just the command and not the selection part, or to have it show nothing, and then somehow get lualine/nvim to show both (which perhaps is more of a lualine/nvim question, but I wasn't yet able to get that to work. I thought "%S" would do it, but doesn't seem to work).

Also, I would have thought that modeText should show "VISUAL" and the mode would appear twice, but it doesn't.

More generally, is it possible to show all of the information provided by modeText, cmdText, and msgText directly via the statusline variable (or a plugin), such that vscode-neovim doesn't need to do so directly?

Thanks to everyone for the great extension!

[xiyaowong]

:h 'showmode'
:h 'shortmess'