On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 11:11 PM, bgold12 <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've found that when I type "gvim a" from the command line, I get a > message in the status line after gvim has started up that gives some > info about the file a. For example, if the file doesn't exist, it says > ""a" [New File]"; if the file does exist but is empty, it says ""a" > 0L, 0C". > > This is a very nice feature, but it doesn't seem to work with vim (as > opposed to gvim). From what I can tell, the message IS displayed with > vim, but it disappears after a fraction of a second. >
Try adding "set laststatus=2" to your _vimrc file. This will force display of the status line in every window. You might also want to check help on 'statusline'. There are LOTS more things that can be displayed at the bottom of each window. -- Jay --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
