Multiple status bars will show wrong title when navigating between windows

[martin-braun]

Putting vim.opt.laststatus = 2 to have window based status bars (instead of a global one) reveals an issue when navigating between the windows:

2022-10-09.12.01.59.AM.mp4

Both window status bars display the same file name / title.

[siduck]

i see this happens due to a function ( which prints current active buffer name )

[siduck]

i removed that commit as it was showing same file icons on multiple statusbars. If you are fine without fileicon then you can try this

["NvChad/ui"] = {
    override_options = {
      statusline = {
        overriden_modules = function()
          return {
            fileInfo = function()
              local filename = (vim.fn.expand "%" == "" and " Empty") or " %t "
              return "%#St_file_info#" .. filename .. "%#St_file_sep#" .. " "
            end,
          }
        end,
      },
    },
  }

• If "%t" is returned by the fileInfo function then statusline doesnt show same filenames in multiple statusbars.

• Before we were using vim.fn.expand("%:t") which just prints currently focused filename, this is ok with global statusline but not with multiple statusbars.

• So if we use vim.fn.expand("%:t") as a parameter for the devicons function ( this function generates file icon based on parameters like filename, file type etc ) So this will just generate fileicon of currently focused buffer which isnt good for multiple statusbars.

[martin-braun]

@siduck Thank you for looking into this. It's unfortunate that I lose the icon in the process, but it's actually more worth to have a proper status bar for each window than having an icon, so I really appreciate your solution, it works like charm! =)

Good job!

[siduck]

@martin-braun there might be a way to get the icon too i think!

Can you try any statusline plugin and with laststatus=2 and see if they have working icons on multiple bars?

%t is some ststusline stuff and gets evaluated by the statusline so we don't have to generate filename by some functions. This fixed your issue of same filename showing on multiple bars but we need to find a way to show the icon too :(

[martin-braun]

@siduck lualine seems to show their icon (and a lot of other information) only from the active buffer on the current window.

[sunaku]

The code snippet provided in #26 (comment) is out of date. 😥 I had to update it, per nvchad_ui v2.0 documentation, as follows:

M.ui = {
  -- https://github.com/NvChad/NvChad/discussions/2233
  -- https://github.com/NvChad/ui/issues/26#issuecomment-1312632083
  -- https://nvchad.com/docs/config/nvchad_ui#override_statusline_modules
  statusline = {
    overriden_modules = function(modules)
      modules[2] = (function()
        local filename = (vim.fn.expand "%" == "" and " Empty") or " %t "
        return "%#St_file_info#" .. filename .. "%#St_file_sep#" .. " "
      end)()
    end,
  },
}