Statusbar padding to prevent item shifting

[edrozenberg]

It would be great to have the option to use 0 (zero) leaders and padding for the various statusbar items to prevent them shifting around as their values change.

For ex. in vimrc I include something like the following to prevent line/row/lines/% counters from shifting around in the vim statusbar:

set statusline+=\ \ L%04l,C%03v\ %3LL\ %3p%%\

A mix of 0-leader and space padding for ex. something like the following mockup in flow-control -

Even Helix doesn't have this atm :)

[neurocyte]

I like the idea.

I've been experimenting a little and now you can add parameters to (some of) the status bar widgets by separating them from the widget name with a colon.

linenumber widgets may have three parameters: pad width (int), pad value (space/zero) and digit style (ascii/digital/subscript/superscript).

For example linenumber:4,zero,digital will look like this:

spacer widgets may have one parameter: width (int)
clock widgets may have one parameter: digit style (ascii/digital/subscript/superscript)

Let me know what you think!

[edrozenberg]

This sounds really great! I'll look forward to building this and trying it out soon (already on zig 0.14). Love the option to use a clock/analog style font in the statusbar, that looks really neat.