[Request] Integration with vim-airline

[jamespharvey20]

Your wiki shows how to integrate with lightline.

I'd love to see this integrated with vim-airline, to support showing both cursor and extended mode. I see g:Vm.is_active can be used to show in lightline that the plugin is active. How would one differentiate further, to tell between cursor and extended modes?

Integration would probably require changes in vim-airline code. Once I know how to differentiate between cursor and extended modes, I can open an issue with vim-airline and see if they'll add support for it.

EDIT: Ahh, I see. g:Vm.is_active then use g:Vm.extend_mode to differentiate. Opened an issue with vim-airline asking for support.

Up to you if you want to close this, help contribute to vim-airline, or leave this open for a while to see what they do.

[mg979]

Rather than checking g:Vm.is_active I'd use

" check if VM is active
return exists('b:VM_Selection') && !empty('b:VM_Selection')

I'm sure it's possible to achieve airline integration, but I don't know how since I don't use it. I'll add a function that returns some infos that can be useful for statusline integration.

[mg979]

You can call a new function now, it returns a dictionary with useful infos for a statusline. You should be able to build a statusline section with those. If you have more questions you can reopen this.

[Shatur]

@mg979, What does the status key in the VMInfos() function correspond to? It usually returns 'Hsv'.

[mg979]

:h vm-infoline

It's a bit outdated, it's m for mappings, s for single region mode, v for multiline mode, uppercase when the option is active.

[Shatur]

Yes, I saw this, but was not sure because of the H in Hsv. H stands for "mapping enabled", right?

[mg979]

It's M not H

[Shatur]

Oh, sorry, for unknown reason I thought it was H. Yes, it's M. Thank you for the explanations.

[mohityadav7]

You can call a new function now, it returns a dictionary with useful infos for a statusline. You should be able to build a statusline section with those. If you have more questions you can reopen this.

Hi, It seems like the wiki is missing for statusline integration. I want to integrate with lualine. Could you please help with that?

[mg979]

:help g:VM_set_statusline

You can use built-in statusline, change this value to 3 if it gets overwritten. Or you can use the aforementioned function inside lualine, but I can't help you with that.