statusline/lualine: extensible sections #173
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This adds extraActiveSection and extraInactiveSection to the lualine options to make it possible to easily extend the defaults with additional sections. We're also changing the exposed type of the *activeSection attributes from `str` to `listOf str`.
(1.) is not really a problem. Breaking changes to be expected, such is the nature of improvement. I'll make a pinned issue describing the changes. For (2.), it really is difficult to convert Nix to Lua in a way that it looks pretty. We already have some lua helpers, on top of the one in nixpkgs, and I am yet to see a converter that can make generated lua look good. We can think about the conversion method a little more, but as long as it's functional we should be good. |
statusline/lualine: extensible sections
I have a usecase where I need to add an additional source to a section in the statusline. Since repeating and then extending the current defaults isn't very convenient, I've changed the type of
activeSections andinactiveSections attributes tolistOf str, addedextraActiveSectionandextraInactiveSectionof the same type and then create a lua table from the concatentation of both settings in the config.I immediately see two issues with this:
I'm not sure if (1.) is a problem. You're on 0.x still so I assume it's justifiable, but I'm of course willing to adapt this PR if you prefer a proper deprecation process or to keep the existing types.
For (2.) I think this somewhat is the nature of Nix but again I am willing to explore alternatives.