macosvimstatusline

Vim status line not working

I'm on OS X and I've installed Vim using Homebrew via

brew install vim

I noticed that whenever I use Vim, there is no status line appearing at the bottom. I thought I could fix it by always displaying the status line by adding the following to vimrc:

:set laststatus=2

This shows me the status line but it's just an empty line above the ruler. It looks like this: enter image description here

Am I missing something?

EDIT

I want to use Vim for Haskell. I've installed haskell-vim-proto. I'm using the included included vimrc which should result in showing things like syntax errors in the status line. When I edit Haskell files (with the vimrc), there is no status bar in my Vim. Adding set laststatus=2 to the vimrc results in a blank status line showing.

When I'm following tutorials that install Vim through HomeBrew (as I did), opening any time of file with Vim shows the status line at the bottom containing things like this:

I'm literally following this tutorial. When he opens .bash_profile with Vim, it looks like this: enter image description here When I do the exact same thing, it looks like this: enter image description here

Solution

  • The guy who made that tutorial made a very big and very common mistake: he is using a heavily customized Vim instead of vanilla Vim. This rather obviously gives new users wrong expectations.

    Basically, everything you see in that first screenshot:

    is either provided by one or more plugins that the author failed to mention or by a built-in option that he also failed to mention.

    If you absolutely need an "always-on" statusline, follow @dNitro's suggestion.

    If you absolutely want the exact same setup as the author (which is not a very good idea in and of itself), I'd suggest you contact him directly. People should take full responsibility of the crap they put online.