How to define tabline and winbar?

[unphased]

I was able to easily incorporate an example by copying it into my dotfiles and using a config closure in the Lazy entry for Nougat to load it, and statusline looks great. But the bubbly example does not make any changes to my tabline or winbar. Is this intentional? Could we get some simple docs to show what all the settable values are?

[MunifTanjim]

Hey, thanks for trying it out.

But the bubbly example does not make any changes to my tabline or winbar. Is this intentional? Could we get some simple docs to show what all the settable values are?

Using Winbar should be exactly the same as using Statusline. With the following differences:

• Instead of Bar('statusline'), do Bar('winbar')
• Instead of bar_util.set_statusline, use bar_util.set_winbar

Tabline support is a bit experimental (well, the whole plugin is experimental 😂). But you can check this for example: https://github.com/MunifTanjim/dotfiles/blob/3d81d787b5/private_dot_config/nvim/lua/plugins/ui/nougat.lua#L272-L305

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Since this plugin is still work-in-progress, the documentation is a bit lacking. Once I get the time to implement a few more features (e.g. #38), I'll focus on better documentation.

[MunifTanjim]

Docs:

• https://github.com/MunifTanjim/nougat.nvim/tree/main/lua/nougat/bar#set_tabline
• https://github.com/MunifTanjim/nougat.nvim/tree/main/lua/nougat/bar#set_winbar

Examples:

• https://github.com/MunifTanjim/nougat.nvim/tree/main/examples

[unphased]

awesome thank you. I hope to test your examples soon.

I have been fiddling with heirline so far (incidentally after first learning about nougat and reading on reddit about people comparing it to heirline...) and it is okay for me, powerful enough for my desired customizations, but... takes quite a bit of time to figure out each time a tweak is desired... could you answer some quick questions about nougat?

How much control do we have over dynamic width? Can we assign a relative priority to each region (so that it can be used to determine which ones are hidden first based on priority)? Can we override hiding a given region based on available width, even if it could still be visible at that time? control over which regions remain visible in response to window width changes is a very important part of the statusbar for me.

[unphased]

I also have some more notes, two of the biggest problems i have with heirline right now are that the following are hard to configure with it as it requires huge additions of conditional logic.

• I want edited buffers to be highlighted more saliently in bgcolor across statusline and tabline.
• I want insert mode and command mode and other modes to have customized bgcolor states for similar reasons.

I believe you have features for the second item here but do you support the first? I have not thought long enough about what to do in the case of combination states (e.g. should i differentiate between being in insert mode on a modified buffer and being in insert mode before having typed anything and the buffer is not unmodified? I think the answer is yes! It would be really awesome to have this.)

[MunifTanjim]

How much control do we have over dynamic width?

There are two type of controls:

• Breakpoint: You can render different things based on the total width (e.g. https://github.com/MunifTanjim/dotfiles/blob/88ea385806ad4a3abf59e1786e9b00def14dfb42/private_dot_config/nvim/lua/plugins/ui/nougat.lua#L148-L160)
• Item Priority: https://github.com/MunifTanjim/nougat.nvim/blob/main/lua/nougat/item/README.md#priority (similar to heirline)

Can we assign a relative priority to each region (so that it can be used to determine which ones are hidden first based on priority)?

Yes, as described above.

Can we override hiding a given region based on available width, even if it could still be visible at that time?

I'm not sure I understand the question 🤔

control over which regions remain visible in response to window width changes is a very important part of the statusbar for me.

nougat.nvim fully supports that. You won't miss anything.

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Just keep in mind that nougat.nvim is a bit new, so there can be some bugs here and there, but those are gonna go away with time.

[MunifTanjim]

I want edited buffers to be highlighted more saliently in bgcolor across statusline and tabline.

You mean you want the whole statusline background to be different if buffer is in modified state? Or do you want a specific item to have different background color? 🤔

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Anyway, you can do both by using the hl option for NougatBar and NougatItem.

• https://github.com/MunifTanjim/nougat.nvim/tree/main/lua/nougat/bar#hl
• https://github.com/MunifTanjim/nougat.nvim/tree/main/lua/nougat/item#hl

Set a function to hl, and return the highlight you want. e.g.

local stl = Bar("statusline", {
  hl = function(_, ctx)
    if vim.bo[ctx.bufnr].modified then
      return "GruvboxRed"
    end
    return "GruvboxBlue"
  end
})