# rebelot/heirline.nvim

Heirline.nvim is a no-nonsense Neovim Statusline plugin designed around recursive inheritance to be exceptionally fast and versatile.

Repository: https://github.com/rebelot/heirline.nvim
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/heirlinenvim
Language: Lua
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: neovim, statusline, statusline-manager
Last push: 2025-05-23T00:48:55+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 33/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 22, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 1705, "days_push": 468, "days_rel": 468, "gap_med": 189, "n_releases_24m": 2}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1288, forks 42 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:15.147914+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: plugin
- maturity: active
- function: editor, terminal-ui
- domain: text-editors, developer-tools
- platform: editor-plugin, windows, bsd
- tags: neovim, neovim-plugin, statusline, winbar, tabline, statuscolumn, lua, vim, extensible, customization, command-line, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- rebelot/heirline.nvim (main) score 33

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:15.147914+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:55:49.561651+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/rebelot/heirline.nvim (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:15.147914+00:00, sha ce60fa2262b6)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.