scrooloose.vim

" from scrooloose's blog post
" https://got-ravings.blogspot.com/2008/08/vim-pr0n-making-statuslines-that-own.html
set statusline=
set statusline+=%<\                       " cut at start
set statusline+=%2*[%n%H%M%R%W]%*\        " flags and buf no
set statusline+=%-40f\                    " path
set statusline+=%=%1*%y%*%*\              " file type
set statusline+=%10((%l,%c)%)\            " line and column
set statusline+=%P                        " percentage of file