Equivalent to airline csv Christian Brabandt plugin integration, but uses Python
own facilities.
Note: filetype detection is out of the scope of the powerline responsibilities.
CSV is supported by powerline, but only as long as filetype detection is
done by Vim correctly. By default CSV files are neither detected nor
highlighted.
Some known differences between powerline code and @chrisbra plugin with
corresponding airline integration:
1. Detection work differently. I cannot say which is better because I have not
tested it much, but it is definitely different.
2. My variant is able to detect whether there is (no) header. (Of course,
relying on Python code.) Airline is using a setting. (Both do not allow
manual per-filetype setting.) Of course, user can force either variant (no
headers at all or headers always).
3. My variant makes it possible to configure header output format, including
truncating it at 15 characters (the default).
4. CSV plugin does not work with multiline CSV items (in some dialects one can
use code like `abc;"I<CR>am<CR>multiline<CR>string"`). See `:h csv-column` on
how to fix this if possible (will require also changing `<sid>WColumn`
function because currently it only works with one line).
5. AFAIK Python does not such a thing as “fixed width CSV”. Thus I do not work
with this, but CSV plugin does. Not sure whether it is different with
space-separated CSV files though.
Note: some modules (i.e wthr and bat) have their names in order to avoid the
situation when module name matches segment name:
import powerline.segments.common.weather
will import weather segment because `powerline.segments.common` contains line
`from powerline.segments.common.weather import weather`.
Fixes#1083
Consider the following script:
% powerline-daemon -s powerline-test
% powerline --socket powerline-test -p/dev/null shell left
Config file not found in search paths (/dev/null): config.json
% powerline --socket powerline-test shell left
Config file not found in search paths (/dev/null): config.json
Note the problem: second call to powerline does not use offending path, but it
still emits the error “Config file not found in search paths”.
ZyX