Re: Any way of getting statusline=%B in insert mode?

[A.J.Mechelynck]

DervishD wrote:
    Hi all, and happy new year!
    I have %B in my status line, but it doesn't work in insert mode,
only on normal and visual mode. At first I thought that the status line
wasn't being evaluated while in insert mode, but the line and column
numbers change correctly, so it *is* being evaluated, it's just that %B
doesn't seems to work.

    Any way of working around this problem? Is this a feature?

    Thanks a lot in advance :)

    Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado


I confirm that in Insert/Replace mode %B gives a single digit zero. In Select 
mode it works OK, even in Select (insert) i.e. when triggered by hitting 
shift-arrow in Insert mode.

Even in Insert mode, the display is OK in non-current windows (e.g. clicking a 
status line or using Ctrl-O Ctrl-W w to change windows, gives a correct 
display on the status line of the window which we just left).

IMHO this is a bug.


Best regards,
Tony.