rebelot/heirline.nvim

Health v2 · maintenance only

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1288 stars · 42 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Heirline.nvim is a Neovim plugin for rendering statusline, winbar, tabline, and statuscolumn format strings in Lua. It provides a flexible API built around recursive inheritance, offering conditionals, highlight propagation, dynamic resizing, and clickable components with no baked-in defaults.

Use cases

• customize my neovim statusline
• build a custom statusline for neovim from scratch
• fast statusline plugin for neovim
• add a winbar to neovim
• create a custom tabline in neovim
• write my own statuscolumn in lua
• statusline with conditional components per filetype

When to choose

• You want complete control to tailor every part of your Neovim statusline, winbar, or tabline in Lua
• You need advanced features like conditionals, update triggers, dynamic resizing, or clickable components
• You value exceptional speed and a modular, inheritance-based component system over pre-built looks

When to avoid

• You want a statusline that works out of the box with sensible defaults
• You prefer not to write Lua configuration for your editor UI
• You want a quick setup and find a pre-made solution like lualine sufficient

Facets

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editor terminal-ui text-editors developer-tools editor-plugin windows bsd neovim neovim-plugin statusline winbar tabline statuscolumn lua vim extensible customization command-line linux macos

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