On Sunday, March 20, 2016 at 7:04:34 AM UTC-4, [email protected] wrote:
> Em segunda-feira, 14 de março de 2016 13:21:40 UTC-3, [email protected]
> escreveu:
> > Hi,
> > I'm a Windows user and I'm learning Vim. It is indeed the very best and
> > fasted way of editing. I also use AutoHotKey, a Windows-only
> > (unfortunately) scripting application that allows the user to speed up
> > their typing dramatically. We can define abbreviations and the matching
> > expanded text to use in any other application, such as this input box. It's
> > like MS Word's autocorrect database, only OS-wide. The combination of Vim +
> > AHK would make a writter's drem algum momento.
> >
> > Here are two of the abbreviations I have among my 25000k:
> >
> > 5x -> "Five times"
> > 5cb -> "%Clipboard%" (because the % sign on the same button as #5).
> >
> > But these two abbreviations have a very specific meaning in the Vim
> > commands and using them could lead to a disaster.
> >
> > Fortunately, AutoHotKey has a method to detect the current window's title,
> > so those expansions would not be triggered unless the title meets an
> > specific string.
> >
> > So, de default name in a newly-opened gVim window is "[No Name] - gVim".
> >
> > **The suggestion**: add an option to display the current mode, INSERT or
> > COMMAND, not only in the bottom left corner, but also on the titlebar.
> >
> > Thanks!
>
> Hi Ben, thanks for your answer.
>
> I've looked at this part of the help docs:
> http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/options.html#%27titlestring%27
> ...and, as you can see there, there is apparently no way to insert the
> current mode on the titlebar. It appears to have some variables, e.g.
> filename, but not the mode. Is this a dead end?
See ":h 'statusline'" (the %{ flag, specifically) and ":h mode()"
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