Move VIM status bar to text editor window and above terminal?
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Description
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
In the standard VSCode setup, my window is setup where I have the text editor on top, then the terminal in the middle, and then the VSCode status bar is on the very bottom. When I enter command mode in vim, it's in the VSCode status bar. This gets annoying when I type commands and I might have CAPS LOCK on and I don't notice until I enter the command. This is due to that my eyes are typically looking more towards the text editor window.
Describe the solution you'd like
I would like to move that the Vim info to the bottom of the text editor window.
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Research direction
Start by locating the implementation that displays Vim mode information in the VS Code status bar and inspect the extension entry points responsible for it. Determine whether the VS Code extension APIs support placing that information at the bottom of the text editor; done means Vim command-mode information is visible there instead of only in the global status bar.
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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