Can I give the quick fix window a different status line in vim?

Question

I'd like to give the Quick Fix window a different status line than all my other windows.

I want it to have:

set statusline=\ %n\ \ %f%=%L\ lines\

When I'm in the quick fix window, I can use :setlocal, but how in my .vimrc can I make it have a different status line?

I didn't get this to work for my own status line string because I used quotes: `set statusline="my status"` Instead I had to use the format similar to the OP's question: `set statusline=my\ status` If you want quotes to be in your status lines: `set statusline=he\ said\ \"hello\"` — wxz, Feb 05 '21 at 05:13

score 7 · Accepted Answer · edited Aug 29 '10 at 11:43

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This should work

autocmd Filetype qf setlocal statusline=\ %n\ \ %f%=%L\ lines\

edited Aug 29 '10 at 11:43

Ned Batchelder

answered Aug 29 '10 at 08:42

Nuz

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Thanks. I only had to change "set" to "setlocal", and it's just what I wanted. – Ned Batchelder Aug 29 '10 at 11:43

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 07 '11 at 11:16

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QuickFix window has filetype qf (see :help filetype), so you can add a line:

setlocal statusline=\ %n\ \ %f%=%L\ lines\

to appropriate qf.vim (see :help ftplugin-overrule).

answered Sep 07 '11 at 11:16

Ves

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