picoline.vim

picoline is a tiny status line written in vim9script for my personal use, and serves as a starting point that's easy to extend.

picoline is very small. It has only one command - PicolineToggle - which just shows and hides the statusline (:h statusline).

The most interesting part about it is to show how easy it is to customize the status line.

Features

• Highlights current mode using colors
• Shows current git branch (requires vim-fugitive)
• Shows if vim-gutentags is currently running
• Uses default StatusLine and StatusLineNC highlight groups and exposes custom ones for vim modes
• A cool friend that watches you code (ᵔ◡ᵔ)

Mode Highlighting

picoline automatically highlights the current vim mode (:h vim-modes) using different colors. The following highlight groups are defined with my personal defaults:

• PicolineNRM - Normal mode
• PicolineINS - Insert mode
• PicolineVIS - Visual mode
• PicolineCMD - Command mode
• PicolineRPL - Replace mode
• PicolineSEL - Select mode
• PicolineTRM - Terminal mode
• PicolinePRO - Prompt mode
• PicolineEXT - External mode

Customization

You can override these highlight groups in your colorscheme or vimrc to customize the appearance:

" Example: Custom colors for insert and visual modes
highlight PicolineINS guifg=#ffffff guibg=#e74c3c ctermbg=red ctermfg=white
highlight PicolineVIS guifg=#2c3e50 guibg=#f1c40f ctermbg=yellow ctermfg=black

The highlight groups are automatically set up when vim starts and when you change colorschemes.

Commands

• :PicolineToggle - Toggle the statusline on/off

That's pretty much it

Like I said, picoline ain't much, but it's everything I need.

See :help picoline for more detailed documentation.