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Disable status line in vim's Syntastic

I use syntastic plugin for vim on a computer with small screen, so want to cut out the unnecessary space. But, syntastic, when there's an error, displays e.g.:

[Syntax: line: 5 (1)]
a.cpp|5 col 59 warning|some error
[Location List] :SyntasticCheck gcc (cpp)
Vim status bar

Is is possible to remove the status line ([Syntax: line...) and the last line ([Location List...), which I don't necessarily need? I tried disabling the loclist altogether (then I see the warnings/errors in the vim status bar), but I cannot scroll status bar, when it's too long -- but maybe it is possible?

Before turning on loclist: no loclist

After:

with loclist on

Here I have already removed the statusline formatting string from my ~\.vimrc. I would like the loclist to occupy one extra line, now it takes 3.

Solution

  • I think the it's not possible to entirely solve the problem that I asked for, as the loclist is considered another vim window and as such, the first extra line is a mandatory status line of the main window. One can disable the second extra line though by passing:

    set laststatus=0