Is the status line only limited to the current buffer?

[nasadorian]

Recently converted my vim setup to neovim+lua and am using lualine for status. However there is something I'm confused about - why does the statusline not cover the width of the screen? It seems to follow and fit itself into the focused buffer instead of spanning the screen when splits are present.

Is this just the intended behavior of the statusline? Can I configure it so that the statusline spans the entire screen and highlights the focused buffer?

[shadmansaleh]

In vim & neovim statusline is window based . Lualine draws takes separate config for statusline in active & inactive_windows as sections & inactive_sections respectively .

Currently there's no builtin way to have statusline span entire tabpage width but you can use floatline.nvim ( It draws statusline in a floating window ) . See here for more info.

[nasadorian]

Thanks for your response, this is very helpful.

[nyngwang]

For future readers: The global statusline feature has been merged on upstream: neovim/neovim#17266.