How to replace section_y with contents of section_x?

[ronakg]

This is a question rather than an issue.

I don't want the fileencoding at all. Instead I want the tagbar and filetype in place of it.

I'm not able to figure out how to recreate the contents of section_x in section_y.

I tried following in my ~/.vimrc, but it's not working.

let g:airline_section_y = airline#section#create_right(['tagbar', ' ', 'filetype'])
let g:airline_section_x = ''

[junrrein]

Adding to this, I can't seem to be able to modify section_y at all.

For example, I tried

let g:airline_section_y = 'foo'

in my .vimrc, but the section still displays the file encoding info.

[bookercodes]

@junrrein Same.

I'm not sure what changed but I used to be able to remove the file encoding using let g:airline_section_y = ''. I can't anymore 😱

[bookercodes]

I'm not sure what has happened but I don't think this is a regression.

I tried some older revisions of Airline in Neovim and the problem persists.

[bookercodes]

What's odd is if I echo g:airline_section_y I see the value I set (an empty string). This would suggest the setting is not being over-written.

[chrisbra]

This works for me as expected:

[bookercodes]

I meant to come back and update this issue but if I remember correctly, I managed to solve this issue by removing vim-dev-icions completely.

[chrisbra]

okay, closing then.

[dustinblackman]

To those ending up here from google, the answer to this is setting this in your vimrc. Found here

let g:webdevicons_enable_airline_statusline_fileformat_symbols = 0

[crivotz]

@dustinblackman good solution. Thanks

[lgarest]

To those ending up here from google, the answer to this is setting this in your vimrc. Found here

let g:webdevicons_enable_airline_statusline_fileformat_symbols = 0

Thanks, this is still happening now

[sartak]

edit: posted to a new issue #2574 since this one is closed.

Setting section y's truncation width to 80 characters (the default size of many terminals) down from the default of 88 worked for me:

let g:airline#extensions#default#section_truncate_width = {
  \ 'b': 79,
  \ 'x': 60,
  \ 'y': 80,
  \ 'z': 45,
  \ 'warning': 80,
  \ 'error': 80,
  \ }