vi mode

[Sven Brauch]

So don't move the bar if tabs are hidden? I'm fine with that, not only
because it's less work but also because I think it makes more sense in
the end (no editor puts status flags to the top)...

2013/5/28 Aleix Pol <aleixpol at kde.org>:
> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 9:25 PM, Sven Brauch <svenbrauch at googlemail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Ok, so I'll first add a bar and then I'll integrate it into the top
>> bar if tabs are hidden. Fine.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Sven
>>
>> 2013/5/28 Andreas Pakulat <apaku at gmx.de>:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 8:14 PM, Sven Brauch <svenbrauch at googlemail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi!
>> >>
>> >> kate has removed the vi mode status bar (the one which says "VI:
>> >> NORMAL MODE" etc.). They display it in their status line instead. We
>> >> don't have the status line so it's not being displayed at all. Thus,
>> >> we need to do something (or decide we don't need it displayed).
>> >>
>> >> I would write the code, but I don't use vi input mode and I'm thus not
>> >> sure what would be appropriate. I would dislike putting it in the tab
>> >> bar (where the line/column number is) since there's so much stuff
>> >> there already and not much space available. We could just add a new
>> >> status bar, and effectively get the old thing back (iff vi mode is
>> >> enabled). Other ideas?
>> >>
>> >> What would you do?
>> >
>> >
>> > IMO:
>> >
>> > - when tabs are shown, add a status line for vi-mode and also put
>> > line/col
>> > info there. Basically the same thing kate has, one per view area (when
>> > using
>> > split views).
>> >
>> > - when tabs are off, put the same information into the area where
>> > line/col
>> > info is, there's plenty of space there.
>> >
>> > Alternatively I could also live with:
>> >
>> > - drop tabs completely and hence only have the second option from above.
>> >
>> > Andreas
>> >
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>
> I think having the tabs hidden is a corner case. I have seen nobody without
> the tabs (I know there's people, like Andreas, who doesn't use them but
> that's not the general case). Also given that it's about vim emulation and
> vim puts it at the bottom, I'd say this should be at the bottom as well.
>
> Aleix