How to check the current language?

[sgon00]

Hi, I am new to helix. When I open a file, I figured out I can setup the language by using :lang rust. But how to check what the current language selecction is? I found :theme can return the current theme, but :lang simply returns an error. I can't figure this out by checking issues/discussion/doc/googling. Thanks a lot.

[the-mikedavis]

You can use :set statusline.center ["file-type"] to temporarily add the file-type statusline element which shows the current language.

I think it would be fine to add that behavior to :set-language/:lang to show the current language if no arguments are provided.

[sgon00]

Thanks a lot for the answer. I have put

[editor.statusline]
center = ["file-type"]

to config.toml.