Plugin is disabled on multiselection even for indicators that don't depend on a selection

[eugenesvk]

Encoding/line ending etc. should still be shown even when there are multiple selections

The last check is the reason

ST-CustomStatusMessage/plugin/listener.py

Line 41 in bcad731

return bool(get_plugin_setting("enabled") and is_regular_view(view) and len(view.sel()) == 1)

Think it'd be better to add that check the indicators that should fail on multiselection and then instead of erasing the whole message just make those indicators ""?

[jfcherng]

This seems to be a difficult issue. What should be shown if I have a template "{line_endings}, Ln {row} Col {col}"? I would say only "{line_endings}" but that's not possible.

[jfcherng]

the only way I can figure out is add another setting like template_multi_selection. But again, what should happen if I still use "{line_endings}, Ln {row} Col {col}" as template_multi_selection?

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I feel there should be multiple set_status with different keys for different situations but I don't have a overview now.

[eugenesvk]

the only way I can figure out is add another setting like template_multi_selection. But again, what should happen if I still use "{line_endings}, Ln {row} Col {col}" as template_multi_selection?

You could ask the user to enter a dictionary of separate segments, e.g.,

"{line_endings}", ← segment 1
", ",             ← segment 2 (custom user separator, might need special handling is seg3 is hidden)
"Ln {row} Col {col}"]  ← segment 3

And then if the variable inside that segment is invalid/doesn't make sense, simply don't show the whole segment, including the text within it

I feel there should be multiple set_status with different keys for different situations but I don't have a overview now.

Yeah, the indicators could be grouped by window / buffer / caret? And then each group has its own _is_enabled and the rest? Similarly to how you split the update into _update_variables_on_view_activated and _update_variables_on_selection_changed