statusline default - :set stl&

[Sven Guckes]

when you start with "vim -u NONE" then there is a statusline.
filename, modification status, ruler (line,column) and percentage.

but when you look at the setting with ":set statusline" then
nothing is shown. so i suppose an internal default value is used.

but how to show it? the ":help statusline" does not list it.
and with ":set statusline&" is goes back to empty again. :-/

i am aware of the examples in options.txt, and yet i think
that ":set stl" should show something else than an empty value.
or rather, when this value is empty then nothing is shown at all. ;)

Sven


$ cd vim; rg -w BOT .
./src/option.h
340:#define STL_ALTPERCENT 'P' // percentage as TOP BOT ALL or NN%

$ cd vim; rg %l,%c .
./runtime/doc/options.txt
7417: :set statusline=%<%f\ %h%m%r%=%-14.(%l,%c%V%)\ %P
7419: :set statusline=%<%f%h%m%r%=%b\ 0x%B\ \ %l,%c%V\ %P

Examples:
Emulate standard status line with 'ruler' set >
:set statusline=%<%f\ %h%m%r%=%-14.(%l,%c%V%)\ %P

[Bram Moolenaar]

Sven wrote:

> when you start with "vim -u NONE" then there is a statusline.
> filename, modification status, ruler (line,column) and percentage.
>
> but when you look at the setting with ":set statusline" then
> nothing is shown. so i suppose an internal default value is used.
>
> but how to show it? the ":help statusline" does not list it.
> and with ":set statusline&" is goes back to empty again. :-/
>
> i am aware of the examples in options.txt, and yet i think
> that ":set stl" should show something else than an empty value.
> or rather, when this value is empty then nothing is shown at all. ;)

There are two ways to look at this. In general, when you make an option
empty and then later check the value, you expect it to still be empty.

We don't really have a mechanism to show what is used as "the builtin
default". And for 'statusline' I think the only reason to get this is
so you can change it. Then you need to look at the help for
'statusline' anyway, and you can find the example.

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