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How can I constantly see the current filename in Vim?
You can add this to your .vimrc file, or temporarily while in vim. To get the full path you can add this command, again to either your .vimrc or while in vim. For more info than you care to read through there’s additional info on both of these available in vim.
What does the tabline extension do in Vim?
tabline extension provides an extra statusline on the top of the Vim window and can. display loaded buffers and tabs in the current Vim session). Most of this is customizable and the default sections can be configured using the vim.
How to toggle between statusline and airline in Vim?
Toggles between the standard ‘statusline’ and airline. Refreshes all highlight groups and redraws the statusline. With the ‘!’ attribute, skips refreshing the highlighting groups. Shows the status of all available airline extensions. Extern means, the extensions does not come bundled with Airline.
How to write Vim-airline / airline.txt at Master?
* tiny core written with extensibility in mind. * integrates with many popular plugins. can use unicode or powerline symbols. * optimized for speed; it loads in under a millisecond. tweak it to your needs.
How can I permanently display the path of the current file?
In your statusline, add a %F to display the full path: Note, %F will be the full path. To get a path relative to the working directory, use %f. If your statusline is not already visible, you may first need to configure it to be always visible, via laststatus=2
To always show this menu-bar, use Although this makes only sense when you really want to work with tabs (I can recommend it). Otherwise I’d suggest to set the name in the statusbar as outlined by others. Also check out vim-airline. Note that you still have to use “set laststatus=2” show the status line.