Hacking Vim 7.2

You will now see that the command buffer gets a place of its own in the last line of the editor window.

However, we now see that the status line still shows the old non-informative status line, as in the default installation. This problem occurs because Vim, by default, does not show the status line at all. Instead, it just shows the command buffer with a little bit of information in it.

My status line always contains information about:

you look in the Vim help system by typing

match todo /\(\(25[0-5]\|2[0-4][0-9]\|[01]\?[0-9][0-9]\?\)\.\)\\ \{3\}\(25[0-5]\|2[0-4][0-9]\|[01]\?[0-9][0-9]\?\)/

[^
Begin a group of characters that should not be matched
\t
The tab character
]
End of the character group