Showing text info in window split separators

Question

(I'm using nvim 0.7 and have recently moved from a init.vim to lua, which is baffling me slightly.)

In my old set-up a split would look like this:

→ note that the bar that splits the two windows contains info on the window above it.

In my new set-up, the bar that splits the windows is just blank. I've searched through my old (long) config for anything related to splits and can't find anything I did to achieve that before!

Is this a built-in setting somewhere? (I'm also confused re talk of "winbar" which seems to be a new feature in neovim 0.8, and possibly vim, but I've had this behaviour for years).

Answer 1

It’s the laststatus config. set laststatus=2 fixes.

The value of this option influences when the last window will have a status line:

0: never
1: only if there are at least two windows
2: always
3: always and ONLY the last window

Thanks for Christian's comment