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I'm often using vim fullscreen on an extrawide monitor (multiple splits, including terminals). Because both the command bar and the tabs bar span the full terminal width and are left-aligned, commands and tabs are always located to the far-left of the screen, often far away from the split I'm currently focused on, which is annoying (especially because I like having a terminal split to the left of my editor splits).

Is there any way to center-align the command bar and/or the tabs bar?

Here's an illustration of what I'd like to achive (before/after):

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I am using the latest neovim version (v5 pre-release), so if there's a neovim-only solution, that's fine with me. Also, I don't mind plugins.

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  • For the tabline, it's probably possible to do, but not very easy. You have to set the 'tabline' option to call a function that will create a tab line expression for Vim to evaluate. In that function, you can calculate the width and pad it with spaces so it gets centered. For the command-line, I don't think there's a way to move it from the first column, so not sure how you'd go about that...
    – filbranden
    May 26, 2021 at 18:27
  • But theoretically it's possible to create a popup-window that behaves like typing :—definitely non-trivial though
    – D. Ben Knoble
    May 26, 2021 at 21:10

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