Customisable status bar mode text
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area/configuration
kind/enhancement
- Dominant language
- TypeScript
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Description
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
It would be good to have a way to customise the status bar text for the current mode as sometimes I find myself wanting something cleaner looking.
Describe the solution you'd like
New settings object to override the default mode strings.
Contributor guide
First steps
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- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
The issue names no files, tests, or entry points. Start by locating the status bar mode text and the extension's settings definitions, then determine how a new settings object would override the default mode strings. Done means users can configure cleaner mode text without changing the defaults.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript, vscode
- Domain
- developer-experience, tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100